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A Plan to Make Chinese Canadians (Literary Digest, 1929)
A short article from an American magazine that clearly lays out the deepening frustration within early Twentieth Century Canada concerning the influx of Chinese immigrants to that country. "The story of Chinese immigration reveals the fact that the early efforts to reduce the number of these immigrants resulted in the imposition of a head tax. The amount of this tax was increased from year to year until it reached $500.00..." Today, the Chinese Canadian population is numbered 1,216,565 and is recognized as the largest of the eight ethnic groups that make up the Asian-Canadian community.
| Immigration Restrictions in Canada (The Atlanta Georgian, 1917)
In 1917 an American newspaper reported that Canada, heeding the protests of it's most impoverished citizens, moved to restrict the flow of the immigrants to their shores:
"The commissioners say that in Canada, as in Australia, there is a strong current of opposition to immigration as it is now carried on, particularly among the wage earners in the cities. It is recognized that the development of the land is of prime consideration and that the tide of immigration into the cities has created a surplus, whereas the rural communities have suffered."
| The Rebelion of White Canada (Harper's Weekly, 1907)
Written by an eye-witness, this is an account of the 1907 anti-Asian hysteria that flared up in the Canadian city of Vancouver which resulted in numerous assorted acts of mob-violence and arson targeting the Asian community of that city. Asian migration to the Dominion of Canada as a result of diplomatic agreements between Japan and Great Britain (Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902–1922) resulted in a tremendous amount of racist tension among Canadian whites."If Vancouver had her choice about it, England would have no friends at all east of the Suez Canal. It is a far cry for a city of land to carry her troubles half-way around the world and back again, but Vancouver has had a riot, and if you are to believe popular sentiment, fears not who knows about it." Click here to read about the Japanese-American internment camps of W.W. II.
| The Yellow Peril and White Canada (The Review of Reviews, 1910)
The Canadians of British Columbia were just as uncomfortable with Asian immigration as their American neighbors on the west coast. This article discusses the Canadian Prime Minister, at the time, Sir Wilfred Laurier, and what he planned to do about "Asiatic immigration", such as placing a "head tax" on each Asian who migrated. The growth of the Indian Hindu population along the Canadian West Coast is also mentioned
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