The Hong Kong-Canada Crosscurrents Project features life experiences of those who migrated between Canada and Hong Kong. In the last 50 years, a large flow of migrants from both directions has connected Hong Kong and Canada, transforming both societies. The Hong Kong-Canada Crosscurrents Project provides coordination and depository infrastructure for the research, collection development and public education of the effects of migrations and cultural connections between Hong Kong and Canada from the 1960s to the 2010s.

The project web site is located at: https://hongkong.library.utoronto.ca/crosscurrents2

The launch of the project was held on 27 February 2014 at the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library.

The Hong Kong-Canada Crosscurrent Project partners include:
Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library at the University of Toronto
St. John’s College at the University of British Columbia
Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Canada
University of Hong Kong Libraries, ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION PROGRAMME, SPACE at the University of Hong Kong
David Lam Centre at the Simon Fraser University
York Centre for Asian Research

The new interactive website for the Hong Kong-Canada Crosscurrents Project is tentatively scheduled to launch in May 2014. Included on the website will be updates about the project, a list of partners and committee members involved in the project, information about the events related to the project including videos of presentations. Database featuring the various experiences of migrants between Canada and Hong Kong will be gradually uploaded to the website over the next five years.

For more information, contact  Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library Director Jack Leong at jack.leong@utoronto.ca.