“I started working with local schools – schools that have a very high South Asian immigrant population – because I thought these students could really benefit from learning these stories and learning about the journey that these early settlers faced. So now it’s less about it being just for (our family), and more for the entire community,” she said. “There are a lot of other South Asian pioneer families whose stories haven’t been told.
#sd36learn #bctf #bced #AntiOpression #antiracist /m0QGKzj9AW We are hard at work putting together the Teacher's Guide for K Karen Dosanjh and "Untold Stories: The South Asian Pioneer Experience in BC". Matheson Secondary – who are creating a teacher’s guide for the book, to better help teachers fold it into their curriculum – as well as the Surrey school district’s Safe Schools program. Premier John Horgan and Canada’s Minister of Defence, Harjit Sajjan.ĭosanjh has been working with a pair of teachers at L.A. The book has also been endorsed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, B.C. Those stories were written by Dosanjh and turned into a book, Untold Stories: The South Asian Pioneer Experience in B.C., which was released in the spring, and has since been gaining popularity not just in the South Asian community but beyond – including local schools, she noted. – including her father-in-law, whose own father arrived in Canada in 1907. Her interest piqued, Dosanjh set out to interview and learn from a number of other South Asian pioneer families in B.C. “That’s where my love of documenting and preserving South Asian history started.” “He came to Canada in 1906 and was really instrumental in sponsoring other key members to come here, including my father,” Dosanjh said. when she realized the impact that his sacrifices, and those of others like him, had on her family. In 2006, Dosanjh and her family were celebrating the 100-year anniversary of her grandfather’s journey from Punjab, India to B.C.
A family celebration a century in the making spurred White Rock’s Karen Dosanjh to undertake an ambitious project – documenting the oft-forgotten stories of not just her own ancestors, but those of hundreds of other South Asian families in British Columbia.
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