News, press, and media coverage of the South Asian Canadian Digital Archive.
To celebrate Sikh Heritage Month (2023), Historica Canada released a new Heritage Minute about the historic mill town of Paldi, BC. It is the first Heritage Minute to highlight a South Asian Canadian story as well as the first to be released in Punjabi (in addition to English and French).
Read articleThe South Asian Canadian Digital Archive (SACDA) won the 2nd Runner Up at the Digital Humanities (DH) Awards 2022 under the Best DH Dataset category.
Read articleA partnership between the South Asian Studies Institute (University of the Fraser Valley) and the BC Labour Heritage Centre led to the groundbreaking Union Zindabad! South Asian Canadian Labour History in British Columbia. The book explores the stories of South Asian workers in BC over a period of more than 100 years, including the pivotal work of the Canadian Farmworkers Union (CFU). All archival materials from the book along with more resources can be found in the South Asian Canadian digital Archive, at sacda.ca.
Gold's photos, and other items from the I.W.A. Archive, have been used in a wonderful recent project by the BC Labour Heritage and the University Fraser Valley South Asian Studies Institute. Union Zindabad!, which was released as both a book and a virtual exhibit, charts the key role played by South Asian folks in the British Columbian labour movement. The Kaatza Historical Society is excited to soon have our own section on the South Asian Canadian Digital Archive, as part of our new partnership with UFV SASI.
Read articleSASI Director, Dr. Satwinder Kaur Bains is amongst several scholars, historians, archivists and activists featured in a new National Film Board (NFB) film called 'Unarchived.' The world premiere of the film took place at this year's (2022) Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF).
Read articleSince the beginning of the twentieth century when South Asians first arrived in British Columbia, their population has grown to over three hundred thousand. However, until recently, there was not much done to preserve the community's history.
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