This website is no longer updated and has been replaced with a static copy. The Spatial History Project was active at Stanford University from 2007-2022, engaging in dozens of collaborative projects led by faculty, staff, graduate students, post-docs, visiting scholars and others at Stanford and beyond. More than 150 undergraduate students from more than a dozen disciplines contributed to these projects. In addition to a robust intellectual exchange built through these partnerships, research outputs included major monographs, edited volumes, journal articles, museum exhibitions, digital articles, robust websites, and dozens of lightweight interactive visualizations, mostly developed with Adobe Flash (now defunct). While most of those publications live on in other forms, the content exclusive to this website is preserved in good faith through this static version of the site. Flash-based content is partially available in emulated form using the Ruffle emulator.
Chinese Canadian Stories
Chinese Canadian Stories: Uncommon Histories from a Common Past is a collaborative project between the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, and various campus and community-wide partners, including the Stanford Spatial History Project. Funded by the Citizenship and Immigration Canada's Community Historical Recognition Program (CHRP), the project is developing a one-stop web portal dedicated to collecting, digital archiving, accessing, and distributing information about Chinese Canadian history. The Spatial History Lab's role will be to create a flagship visualization of a database of 97,123 Chinese who were recorded in the Chinese Head Tax Register up to 1949, that includes personal names, village of birth, district of birth, date of registration, port of arrival, and vessel name.
Former Research Assistant:
Stephanie Chan
Lab Staff
GALLERY:
Chinese Canadian Immigrant Pipeline, 1912-1923
Chinese Canadian Immigrant Flows, 1912-1923
