SOC 470 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chinese Head Tax In Canada, Middle Power, Skilled Worker

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 470
• Professor: Cheryl Teelucksingh

Document Summary

People were doing all sorts of things to get to canada (sitting on boats for long hours) People who come in as immigrants are most likely going to become canadian citizens over time, becoming a citizen is key. The ideal immigrant was someone who would do the dirty work. Toronto was very much uk-based (predominantly christian and white) Maintaining the white british protestant view, would allow canada to be just like. If you were outside of that mould^ you were considered undesirable. Extreme forms of racism: chinese-canadians came into bc to help with the gold rush, chinese labour accounted for about 70% of the labour for the railroad. The chinese head tax (the chinese had to pay if they wanted to come to canada. Started the year after the railway was built at first, but then went up to.