CRM 3318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Maple Syrup, Eurocentrism, Chinese Head Tax In Canada
31 Oct 2016
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Next week sign-up sheet for presentation 4-5 people. In the shadow of gold mountain continued. Passed the exclusion act so no chinese came into canada. More than 2/3 of chinese in canada were bachelors because they lived with the rest of the workers and had no family. If you did not come back to canada within two years they took away your right to enter. Chinese were invaded by japan people died of starvation, bombings etc. Japanese attacked the women/children waiting for their husbands/dads to return from canada. Enlisted in the army to show canadian government their loyalty to canada: helped the chinese feel apart of canada, they were treated with respect and high regard for enlisting. Enjoyed all the same rights as other canadian citizenship 1982. Chinese wanted repayment of head tax paid in 1919: margaret mitchell presented this evidence to parliament, about 1,200 people showed up/registered to get their head tax 13008 back.
