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The following guide provides access to information, education, and recreation resources for and about the Trans, Gender Diverse, and Two-Spirit community.

Over 70 self-paced language learning courses and dialects.

Use this guide to find information about federal, provincial, and municipal elections and political parties.

Interactive activities, practice tests, and grammar resources offer assistance in successfully improving your English Language skills.

Although excluded from some official records, people of Chinese origin have always been included in Canadian census enumerations. The first census in Canada was taken in 1666 in New France (now Quebec). Following 1666, local and regional censuses were taken at irregular intervals until 1851, when the first national census was taken. The 1851 census covered the modern Canadian provinces of Canada, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. Although the census has been conducted at ten-year intervals since 1851, the 1881 census was the first to include the western provinces and territories. Since B.C

Cemetery records and monumental inscriptions are a very useful source of information for genealogists. Cemetery records document burials that have occurred in a particular cemetery, while monumental inscriptions are etched on grave markers or headstones. Although it should usually be possible to find a cemetery record corresponding to a monumental inscription, there may not always be a monumental inscription corresponding to a cemetery record. The family may not have purchased a headstone, or it may have been damaged or destroyed. There are few early Chinese graves in Canada, due in part to the

Reading about the lives of Chinese-Canadian pioneers and their families may provide insights that will help as you explore your own family history.

A majority of early Chinese immigrants to Canada came from Guangdong (Kwangtung) Province in South China's Pearl River Delta. For more information, see Back to China.

溫哥華公共圖書館資源及服務 溫哥華圖書館(VPL)的中央館及各分館均有就業方面的圖書資料。中央館的就業相關圖書主要收藏在館內四樓，有關的中文書籍則收藏在二樓的多語種藏書處。  

ESL resources for Chinese language speakers.