Reporter : Phil Vernon
  • Chinese Labour Battalions: Vancouver’s little-known role in the Great War

    Gulls wheel overhead as the guards funnel hundreds of uniformed men off the hulking ship to be counted, then marched down the long line of boxcars and onto the waiting train. Young men from a far-off land, casting more than one beseeching glance toward the knot of silent onlookers on the yard’s grey margins.