我们为什么
做这件事

京士顿区华人协会（CCAKD）成立于一九七九年，是这座城市最早的华人社区组织之一。

四十多年来，我们办春节晚会，办中文学校，接收越南难民, 为本地医院和社区捐款捐物。但我们一直没有时间，认真坐下来听老一辈把他们的故事完整讲一遍。

二〇二六年，我们开始做这件事——从一位 1952 年抵达金斯顿的台山籍百岁老人，李锡光先生，开始记录。

The Chinese Canadian Association of Kingston & District (CCAKD) was founded in 1979, one of the earliest Chinese community organizations in the city.

For more than forty years we ran Lunar New Year galas, a Chinese school, resettled Vietnamese refugees, and gave to local hospitals and causes. But we never quite found the time to sit down and listen — properly — to the elders telling their stories from start to finish.

In 2026 we began. We started with Mr. Lee Sik-Kwong (李锡光), a Toishanese centenarian who arrived in Kingston in 1952.

我们采用轻量的口述历史方法。每次访谈一到两个小时，由讲述者选择最自在的语言——通常是粤语、台山话、普通话或英文。访谈过程中，视频与音频同步记录，由我们的撰稿人完成完整的文字整理。

文字稿完成后，我们会请讲述者过目并征求授权。若对方愿意，我们会再剪辑相应的音视频版本，经授权之后发布。整个过程以讲述者的舒适与意愿为先——节奏由他们决定。

We use a light-touch oral history approach. Each interview runs one to two hours, in whichever language the speaker is most comfortable with — usually Cantonese, Toishanese, Mandarin, or English. We record video and audio at the same time, and one of our writers prepares the full transcript.

Once the transcript is ready, we share it back with the speaker and ask for their permission to publish. If they're comfortable, we then release edited video and/or audio alongside the text. The speaker sets the pace — and decides how much of the recording, if any, goes public.