Chinese Canadian Military Museum Society

05/23/2026

Don't miss the opportunity to learn more about this incredible story.

On May 28 at 7 pm Pacific, you are invited to a very special event in commemoration of Asian History Month. Sponsored by the Chinese Canadian Military Museum Society and ANAVETS Pacific Unit 280, this event is free to all. If you missed my live event in Kelowna, BC, in Nov 2025, this is your chance to catch it again. It will not be recorded.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81591544470

Meeting ID: 815 9154 4470

📅 28 May 2026

05/23/2026

May 24 @ 11:00 a.m. in Richmond, B.C.

05/07/2026

May 28, 2026. Don't miss this talk about the original group of Chinese Canadians who were trained for special ops.

Join Zoom Event!
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81591544470

Meeting ID: 815 9154 4470

📅 28 May 2026

🕒 7 PM PT

04/22/2026

Community historian and author Catherine Clement will be sharing the stories from her award-winning book "The Paper Trail to the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act."

FRIDAY May 1
6:30 p.m.
Manitoba Museum

Admission is free . Register to secure your seat(s).

As part of the opening of this special exhibition, award-winning curator and author Catherine Clement will present a talk on the landmark book that brings this history to life.

04/21/2026

A very happy 80th birthday to our friend, Ted Hawthorne. Thank you for all your support to our Chinese Canadian veterans over the years. On hand to visit Ted was board member LCol Anh Foort, along with former CCMMS president, King Wan; and current musuem VP Steve Ko (who also is President of ANAVETS Pacific Unit 280).

04/21/2026

The Maritime Museum of BC offers a wide variety of opportunities for the public to explore our nautical history and ocean sciences.

04/21/2026

ATTENTION WINNIPEG: AUTHOR'S TALK MAY 1.

This talk coincides with the opening of a special version of the exhibition "The Paper Trail to the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act." Thanks to the Chinese Canadian Museum and the Manitoba Museum for bringing this story to Manitoba.

REGISTER NOW TO GUARANTEE YOUR SEAT.

FRIDAY, MAY 1
6:30 p.m.
Manitoba Museum

As part of the opening of this special exhibition, award-winning curator and author Catherine Clement will present a talk on the landmark book that brings this history to life.

04/19/2026

Who is the East Asian man in this photo? This image was taken in 1945. As described by Getty images: "British Army officers and other ranks from the British Commonwealth including Indian and Sikh soldiers stand behind the barbed wire enclosure of German prison camp Oflag 79 after being liberated by units of the United States Ninth Army on 12th April 1945 at Waggum near Braunschweig (Brunswick) in Germany. ... (Photo by Fred Ramage/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)."

02/19/2026

FREE SCREENING: On February 27th there will be a free screening of Hunger Winter '45, (which features Chinese Canadian WWII veteran George Chow, as well as retired Dutch Major General Cayaux, who was bi-racial at the time of German Occupation.

https://vimeo.com/1096804814

Friday, February 27, 2026
Richmond Cultural Centre 7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond B.C.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
7:00-8:30 p.m.
Exhibits: 7:00 – 7:45 p.m.
Screening: 7:45 – 8:30 PM.

Any questions, contact Alison MacLean:
[email protected]

02/08/2026

Newly uncovered moving images of the D-Day landing taken by US Navy. Footage of Normandy starts around TIMECODE 09:44:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otvSrKsuL7k&t=612s

Historicity Research Services posted "This World War II US Navy footage found at the National Archives and Records Administration shows combat footage from a minesweeping operation off of New Guinea. Unremarked for decades, a short segment of film at the end of this reel is unrelated footage from a camera affixed to a landing craft, LCI(L), off the coast of Normandy, France for the D-Day seaborne assault on Europe.

The National Archives on-line catalog entry contains the text of the US Navy’s shot descriptions. The last segment, starting at about 9:44, is undescribed. My sharp-eyed colleague, Tom Hogan, identified the footage. Based on unique physical characteristics of the boat, he has identified this as LCI(L)-88. That particular boat was one of several landing craft selected by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) for the installation of a fixed motion picture film camera of the unloading operations.

A team from the OSS’s “Field Photographic Division”, commanded by John Ford, spearheaded a crash program to install the cameras in April and May of 1944."

More here: https://historicity.co/2026/02/06/moving-image-from-d-day-found/