In the Shadow of Gold Mountain
- 2004
- 43m
Karen Cho's film, In the Shadow of Gold Mountain, takes her from Montreal to Vancouver to uncover stories from the last living survivors of the Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act. This dark ... Read allKaren Cho's film, In the Shadow of Gold Mountain, takes her from Montreal to Vancouver to uncover stories from the last living survivors of the Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act. This dark chapter in Canadian history, from 1885 until 1947, plunged the Chinese community in Canada... Read allKaren Cho's film, In the Shadow of Gold Mountain, takes her from Montreal to Vancouver to uncover stories from the last living survivors of the Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act. This dark chapter in Canadian history, from 1885 until 1947, plunged the Chinese community in Canada into decades of debt and family separation.