Montreal’s Chinatown Development: Leveraging Against Montreal’s Housing Crisis In recent decades, many Chinatowns in North America have disappeared, swallowed up by waves of real estate speculation and major public infrastructure projects. The surviving Chinatowns with historical and cultural specificities are…
The Chinatown Reimagined Forum 2023 is a three-day event that will take place in Montréal, Québec from September 28 to 30, 2023. The conference aims to ‘Re-imagine a future for Chinatowns across North America’ and bring together community stakeholders, urban…
JIA members have been invited to speak this Saturday October 22nd, 2022 on a panel at the National Trust Conference in Toronto. What happens when historic places we take for granted suddenly come at risk? Often this is due to…
This is a partnership between Jia Foundation and UBC INSTRCC (Initiative for Student Teaching and Research in Chinese Canadian Studies) to facilitate strategic collaborations and communications between Chinatowns. Chinatowns across North America were born out of the experience of discrimination.…
This is a project to commemorate 100 years since the passing of the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act in Canada. A 100th anniversary national exhibition will open on July 1, 2023, hosted by the Chinese Canadian Museum in the historic Wing…
This is a partnership between Jia Foundation and Next-Generation Cities Institute at Concordia University Montreal to form an interdisciplinary team and collaborate on a number of projects with an equitable and community-driven approach toward issues of heritage, housing, cultural spaces,…
Following the announcement by the City of Montreal and the Government of Quebec to designate Montreal Chinatown as a heritage area, Jia Foundation is working with various Chinatown family associations and benevolent societies, as well as Heritage Montreal to nominate…