Welcome back!

Welcome back to another school year and pretty soon, another Heritage Fair! It's never too early to start planning :)

You are invited to attend the Heritage Fair Welcome Back Social on Wednesday, September 18, 3:30pm at the Delta Museum, 4858 Delta Street (Ladner). Please RSVP to cballard@deltamuseum.ca.

B.C. honours Heritage Fair students, announces funding

VICTORIA - This year the Province is honouring 58 student participants and their history-based projects at the Royal B.C. Museum during the sixth annual Provincial Heritage Fair in Victoria, July 4-8, Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Minister Steve Thomson announced today.

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Sunday Showcase

11:00am Opening Ceremony at St. Ann's Academy

12:00pm Project Showcase at Royal BC Museum

3:00 End of Showcase, students leave

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Outdoor Adventures

Jam-packed day of activities, starting with a nature walk at Goldstream Park where we learned about the importance of the estuary.

Followed by a visit to Fort Rodd NHS where we learned about the important role this site played in defending the West Coast.

Then it was off to Chinatown where we learned about the significance of Victoria's Chinatown to the history of Victoria, Canada and China.

And if that wasn't enough, it was into the swimming pool to really tire the kids out!

And we're off!

After traveling for nearly five hours -- by bus, by ferry, and then by bus again -- the Richmond-Delta delegation have finally made it to Victoria. 

Part 5 of 5: An Interview with Tristen

* This is the last in a series of interviews conducted by Manvi Ansal, Provincial Fair 2011 Alumnus, with each of the Richmond-Delta Provincial Fair 2013 delegates. 

Name: Tristen Wong

Grade: 5

City: Richmond

Project Title: Blood and Iron: Chinese Canadians coming to work on the CPR

Tristen’s topic is still important in today’s world because when many people think about the CPR, they think about the Caucasian and Scottish people that built it, but they don’t even realize that Chinese immigrants helped make it too. Without the Chinese, there would be no CPR. When Tristen heard that she had to narrow her topic, she chose it on the Chinese Immigrants that made it, not about everybody that contributed. 

The greatest challenge of making her project was to make her project straight, neat and perfect because she didn’t want it to be messy. She also said that when she had to write a report, she had to do at least 6-7 drafts until it because good enough.  

 Tristen would change the actual project board because it was yellow, but she wanted to change it to blue. It would be like the sky. She had a model of the railroad on her board, and she didn’t think it would make sense for the sky to be yellow.   

Tristen got surprised when John A. MacDonald gave a speech about the CPR, he didn’t mention anything about the Chinese.  Also, the Chinese were being paid 1 dollar when the whites were being paid 2 dollars. They didn’t know that they were being cheated because in China they were used to earning 9 cents.