IN THE SHADOW OF GOLD MOUNTAIN

Directed by Karen Cho · Starring Karen Cho · 2004

Filmmaker Karen Cho seeks out the last survivors of Canada's Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act to record their stories of a discriminatory era.

Urgent first-hand testimony from survivors of a shameful chapter in Canadian immigration history.

Filmmaker Karen Cho travels from Montreal to Vancouver to uncover stories from the last survivors of the Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act, a set of laws imposed to single out the Chinese as unwanted immigrants to Canad

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