HIS367H5 Lecture Notes - Indo, Japanese Canadians
Document Summary
Next week: read map to the doors of no return. According to all measures, there is not much violence in canada due to racism. Vancouver, ottawa are relatively diverse, but there are places that are un-diverse but are still very open to diversity compared to places such as france and united states. Up until 1960s, there were still racist immigration laws on the basis of country, birth and color. Prior to 1960s, asian and blacks cannot assimilate into society: anyone who can fit into immigrants from british, more northern and western europeans can assimilate into canada. In 1947 of the irish immigration because of potato famine, there were 40 sailing ships waiting to be processed in montreal, quebec. They suffered their share of prejudice because they were seen as the other : later, canada had a very let it be immigration in 1970"s because there were many.
