Earlier this month, GRSJ sessional lecturer Dr. Yao Xiao joined community members and activists advocating for the designation of a historical site at Old Hillcrest Chinese Cemetery in Cowichan. In the two pieces linked below, they comment on the importance of anti-racism and social justice education through reading the culturally sensitive and nuanced information preserved in diasporic Chinese cemeteries across B.C.
Read more in the Cowichan Valley Citizen: Ancestors remembered in ceremony at Old Hillcrest Chinese Cemetery in Cowichan
Read more in the Chinese-language newspaper Sing Tao Daily: https://www.singtao.ca/7320612/2025-11-03/news-【勿忘華人歷史】溫哥華島華人墓園++獲列為遺產名錄/?variant=zh-hk
