The worst thing we can do is for our generations to not know where we’ve been.
Dr Satwinder Kaur Bains, Director of south asian studies institute (SASI) at the university of the fraser valley.
The South Asian Candian Legacy Project
Facts and interesting information
Vancouver BC, 2022
CONTACT:
The South Asian Canadian Digital Archive
604-854-4547
About the South Asian Canadian Legacy Project:
- There are large gaps in South Asian Canadian history due to emission or neglect.
- Mayo Singh and 35 shareholders bought land in Paldi on Vancouver Island and established Mayo Siding, a very successful mill that provided jobs to many South Asian Canadians.
- The Cowichan Valley Museum and Archives had all of Joan Mayo’s research material.
- The South Asian Legacy project is digitizing and displaying all of Joan Mayo’s findings.
- Joan Mayo married the oldest son of Mayo-Singh in 1951.
- There has been only a provincial and federal Canadian view about keeping people separate, so sitting down and talking about it may be a better approach.
- The South Asian Canadian Legacy Project is now online and accessible worldwide
- Through colonization, the priority of history in Canada has mainly been about European-centric history.
- The legacy projects largest portion of photos and videos came from Paldi.
- The status quo in our communities is very supremacist and is at its core a place of privilege and power that is unquestioned.