因《南京大屠杀》而著名于世的美国华裔女作家张纯如2003年写过一部《在美国的华人:一部叙述史》,揭露了修建美国太平洋铁路的华人的惨痛历史,在加拿大的华人,也同样有着这样一部血泪史。一个国家的历史有很多种书写方式。不少人都觉得加拿大的存在感太低了,除了印第安原住民和欧洲最早横跨大西洋的移民外就再无历史可言。但加拿大人自己知道,他们的历史可以用一条铁路来写,这条铁路铺出了加拿大。 Zhang Chun-ru, a Chinese-American woman writer famous for the “Nanjing Massacre”, wrote a book entitled “The Chinese in the United States: A Narrative History” in 2003, exposing the tragic history of the Chinese who built the U.S. Pacific Railway. The Chinese in Canada , Also has such a bloody history. There are many ways of writing a country’s history. Many people find Canada’s existence too low and there is no history other than the Indian Aborigines and the earliest transatlantic immigrants in Europe. But Canadians knew for themselves that their history could be written on a railroad that covered Canada.