Every effort has been made to trace ownership of visual and written material used in this book. Errors and omissions will be corrected in subsequent updates or editions.
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following:
Cover portrait: Detail (colourized) from black and white photo, DN-0005978, Chicago Daily News negatives collection. Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society.
Cover background: Detail (colourized) from black and white photo, Pender Street, ca. 1929, Stuart Thomson photo, City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-2466.
Image 1: National Archives of Canada, Edouard G. Deville, C-016715.
Image 2: British Columbia Archives, B-03625.
Image 3: British Columbia Archives, D-00336.
Image 4: British Columbia Archives, F-00197.
Image 5: City of Vancouver Archives, DIST P168.1.
Image 6: Vancouver Public Library, 10442.
Image 7: Arnold Genthe, Library of Congress, FN 2332.
Image 8: Ontario Multicultural History Society.
Image 9: City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 99-1529, photographer: Stuart Thomson.
Image 10: City of Vancouver Archives, photographer: Philip T. Timms, CVA 677-611.
Image 11: British Columbia Archives, C-07921.
Image 12: British Columbia Archives, PDP03732.
Image 13: Courtesy of the Trail Historical Society.
Image 14: Map by Paul Heersink/Paperglyphs. Map data © 2002 Government of Canada with permission from Natural Resources Canada.
Glossary: Chinese characters by Lu Yimin and Huang Wei.
Thanks to Barbara Hehner for her careful checking of the manuscript, and to Dr. Anthony Chan of the University of Washington, author of such books as Gold Mountain: The Chinese in the New World, for sharing his expertise.