WE ARE IMMIGRANTS: The Hidden Hardships & Legacy of Early Chinese Canadian Immigrants explores a muted suffering that early Chinese immigrants faced during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when they migrated to Canada in search of economic opportunities. This series of images by artist Raeann Kit-Yee Cheung also celebrates the legacy of Chinese immigrants as important contributors to the unification of what we now know as Canada. 

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The exhibition statement and written content expanding on the stories behind the altered archival photographs featured in this exhibition was developed by the artist Raeann Kit-Yee Cheung. Her writing was essential to include in this touring exhibition, as she has done and continues to carry out extensive archival research into Chinese immigration stories from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Canada – and these stories must be shared more broadly.