Further publication history, selected articles, interviews of the last chief editor Mr. John Hsu can be found at the digital exhibition Glimpses into Chinese Immigration in Canada: The New Republic & World Journal Vancouver Newspapers.
[4] Since then, various political groups from China contested for support from overseas Chinese populations, and newspapers were one of the best means to influence the local public.
Possibly in 1911, Mr. Gao Yunshan (Chinese name: 高雲山; English name: Ko Bong) founded the New Republic newspaper in Victoria with his colleagues Li Tianmin (李天民; Walter Lee), Huang Bodu (黃伯度; Wong Bark Du).
The local key KMT members including Guan Baohua, Huang Bodu, Li Hanping, and Ma Jieduan (Chinese: 關寶華, 黃伯度, 李瀚屏, 馬傑端) were the earliest editors.
[8] After the Second Revolution, the KMT was dissolved and Sun established the Chinese Revolutionary Party (中華革命黨 Zhonghua geming dang) in Japan in 1914.
In 1919, six KMT members including The New Republic's chief editor Chen Shuren (Chinese: 陳樹人) were arrested in Vancouver.
In 1948, he became the president of CCBA in Vancouver, and for the following eleven years he lobbied the federal government to gradually equalize immigration rights for Chinese Canadians with their European counterparts.
As such, it is a valuable historical resource for any researcher interested in the influence of KMT on the overseas Chinese community in the past seventy years.