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- The Fruit Hunters + (About exotic fruit cultivators and preservationists)
- Heroes Remember + (Based on 24 interviews with Chinese-Canadian war veterans and their relatives in Canadian cities.)
- Roses Sing on New Snow + (Based on a best seller book (1991) by noted children and adult Chinese Canadian author, Paul Yee. http://www.asiancanadianwiki.org/frame/?l=http%3A//www.paulyee.ca/ (2))
- Cedar and Bamboo + (Cedar and Bamboo Cedar and Bamboo Release … Cedar and Bamboo</br></br>Cedar and Bamboo</br>Release date:2010</br>Running time:22 minutes</br>Formats:Available on DVDAvailable on VHS</br>Closed Captioned:No</br>Availability in North America:Available in CanadaAvailable in the US</br>Outside North America? Click here for availability information.</br></br>Audience level:Elementary SchoolMiddle SchoolHigh SchoolAdultGeneral</br>Directed by:Diana E. LeungKamala Todd</br>Produced by: Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BCJennifer LauKarin Lee</br></br>Chinese people arrived on the Western shores of Canada many generations ago. Since then, they have formed unique relations and shared many experiences with this land's indigenous people. Cedar and Bamboo explores those relationships through the lives of four people of Chinese and Aboriginal roots. Set in the stunning land of British Columbia and the bustling multicultural city of Vancouver, their stories reveal the difficult circumstances of aboriginal people and early Chinese immigrants that both led to these unions but also challenged these families to stay as a whole.llenged these families to stay as a whole.)
- The Panama + (Chronicling the Chan family of Victoria, B … Chronicling the Chan family of Victoria, B.C. One of the oldest Chinese families in Victoria, they owned and operated several restaurants, ending with the Panama Cafe on Government Street from around 1930 until 1967. Chan Dun, at the age of seventeen, landed in Victoria in the 1893, and his family of eight sons and four daughters lived & worked at the Panama Cafe, a western-style eatery catering to the working class of the city. It survived the depression and the war years (even when several sons left for military service). But in the 1960s when fast-food competition in the city became too great, they closed their doors. The film includes many rare black and white photos of early Victoria.rare black and white photos of early Victoria.)
- From Harling Point + (Explores the story of Victoria's Chinese cemetery, established in 1902 and now a National Historic Site. Also includes interviews two inter-generational Chinese women, Charlayne Thornton-Joe and Edna Chow.)
- Up the Yangtze + (Focuses on people affected by the building of the Three Gorges Dam across the Yangtze river in Hubei, China.)
- Comrade Dad + (Karen Lee tells the story of her father Wally Lee and the communist bookstore that he ran on Vancouver's Skid Row from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s.)
- Under the Willow Tree: Pioneer Chinese Women in Canada + (Recollections of seven Chinese women who grew up in Canada in the first half of the 20th century.)
- Ancestors in the Attic + (The series includes a "Chinese Puzzle" segment focusing on Wing On, born in Victoria in 1884)
- Generations: The Chan Legacy + (This episode of CBC's "Generations" series profiles the Chan family, whose Canadian roots go back seven generations, beginning with the Reverend Chan Yu Tan and his wife who came to Canada in 1896 to "spread the gospel.")
- Chinese Restaurants + (This set of films explores the lives and stories of families in many countries who own Chinese restaurants. Disc 3 includes a Canadian story, that of Jim Cook who ran the New Outlook Café in Saskatchewan for 40 years.)