General

Gilmour, Julie F.  Trouble On Main Street: Mackenzie King, Reason, Race, And The 1907 Vancouver Riots.  London: Allen Lane, 2014.

  Johnson, Peter.  Quarantined: Life and Death at William Head Station, 1872-1959.  Victoria: Heritage House, 2013.  (E-Book)

  Roy, Patricia E.  Oriental Question: Consolidating A White Man's Province, 1914-41.  Vancouver: UBC, 2004.

  _____.  Triumph of Citizenship: The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67.  Vancouver: UBC, 2008.  ( CVC; PA )

  _____.  White Man's Province: British Columbia Politicians and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants, 1858-1914.  Vancouver: UBC, 1989.  (CR; PA)

  Ward, Peter M.  White Canada Forever: Popular Attitudes and Public Policy Toward Oriental in British Columbia.  Montreal: McGill-Queen's, 2002.

Chinese-Canadians

Anderson, Kay J.  Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980.  Montreal: McGill-Queen's, 1995.  (PA)

  Chow, Lily.  Blossoms In The Gold Mountains: Chinese Settlements In The Fraser Canyon And The Okanagan.  Caitlin Press: 2018.

Clement, Catherine.  Paper Trail To The 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act.  Oakville, Ontario: Plumleaf Press, 2025.

  Ikebuchi, Shelly D.  From Slave Girls To Salvation: Gender, Race, And Victoria's Chinese Rescue Home, 1886-1923.  Vancouver: UBC, 2016.

Lai, David Chuenyan.  Chinatowns: Towns Within Cities in Canada.  Vancouver: UBC, 1988.

  _____.  Forbidden City Within Victoria: Myth, Symbol and Streetscape of Canada's Earliest Chinatown.  Orca, 1991.

  Lai, David and Guo, Ding.  Great Fortune Dream: The Struggle and Triumphs of Chinese Settlers in Canada, 1858-1966.  Caitlin Press: 2015.  (CVC)

  Ng, Wing Chung.  Chinese in Vancouver, 1945-80: The Pursuit of Identity and Power.  Vancouver: UBC, 1999.

Seto, Donna.  Chinatown Vancouver: An Illustrated History.  Ambrosia: 2025.

Tsang, Henry.  White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots In Vancouver.  Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2023.  (CR)

  Wolf, Jim and Owen, Patricia.  Yi Fao: Speaking Through Memory -- A History of New Westminster's Chinese Community, 1858-1980.  Heritage House, 2008.

  Yee, Paul.  Saltwater City: Story of Vancouver's Chinese Community.  Douglas and McIntyre, 2006.

Japanese-Canadians

  Adachi, Ken.  Enemy That Never Was: A History of Japanese Canadians.  McClelland and Stewart, 1976.  (CR)

  Fukawa, Masako and Stanley.  Spirit of the Nikkei Fleet: B.C.'s Japanese Canadian Fishermen.  Vancouver: Harbour, 2009.

  Furumoto, Ted Y. and Jackson, Douglas W.  More Than A Baseball Team: The Sage of the Vancouver Asahi.  Media Tectonics: 2012.

  Geiger, Andrea.  Subverting Exclusion: Transpacific Encounters With Race, Caste and Borders, 1885-1928.  New Haven: Yale, 2011.  (E-Book)

  Oikawa, Mona.  Cartographies of Violence: Japanese Canadian Women, Memory, and the Subjects of the Internment.  Toronto: Toronto, 2012.  (CVC; PA)

  Robinson, Greg.  Tragedy Of Democracy: Japanese Confinement In North America.  New York: Columbia, 2009.  (E-Book)

Roy, Patricia, et al.  Shashin: Japanese Canadian Studio Photography to 1942.  Japanese Canadian National Museum: 2006.

  Stanger-Ross, Jordan and Sugiman, Pamela, eds.  Witness To Loss: Race, Culpability And Memory In The Dispossession Of Japanese Canadians.  Montreal: McGill-Queen's, 2017.  (CVC)

Switzer, Ann-Lee and Gordon.  Gateway to Promise: Canada's First Japanese Community.  2012.  (CVC)

South Asians

Buchignani, Norman, et al.  Continuous Journey: A Social History of South Asians in Canada.  McClelland and Stewart, 1985.

Dhamoon, Rita, et al., eds.  Unmooring The Komagata Maru: Charting Colonial Trajectories.  Vancouver: UBC, 2020.

Chattopadhyay, Suchetana.  Voices of Komagata Maru: Imperial Surveillance and Workers From Punjab in Bengal.  New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2019.

Jagpal, Sarjeet Singh.  Becoming Canadians: Pioneer Sikhs in Their Own Words.  Harbour, 1994.  (PA)

  Johnston, Hugh J. M.  Jewels of the Qila: The Remarkable Story of an Indo-Canadian Family.  Vancouver: UBC, 2011.

  _____.  Voyage of the Komagata Maru: The Sikh Challenge to Canada's Colour Bar.  Vancouver: UBC, 2014.  (CVC)

  Kazimi, Ali.  Undesirables: White Canada and the Komagata Maru -- An Illustrated History.  Douglas and McIntyre, 2012.  (CVC; PA)

  Nayar, Kamala Elizabeth.  Punjabis in British Columbia: Location, Labour, First Nations and Multiculturalism.  Montreal: McGill-Queen's, 2012.  (E-Book)

Roy, Anjali.  Imperialism And Sikh Migration: The Komagata Maru Incident.  New York: Routledge, 2018.  ( E-Book )

Vig, Rana.  100 Year Journey: Inspirational Stories Of 100 South Asian Pioneers. Mehfill Magazine: 2015.