In this bulletin, we ask how young people acquire their views on immigration. To get an answer, we examined a number of immigration-related statements made… Read More »This Labour Day, Let’s Get the Immigrant Labour Story Straight!
In 1910, Ottawa appointed B.C. Judge Dennis Murphy to investigate alleged Chinese immigration frauds. His investigation and the information he uncovered are very relevant in… Read More »Armies Of Illegal Chinese Entered Canada In Early 1900’s
Donald Smith, later known as Lord Strathcona, drives the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway, at Craigellachie, 7 November 1885. Contemporary perceptions of British Columbia’s allegedly… Read More »British Columbia’s Anti-Asian History: Was It Racism — or Economic Self-defense?
On 27 May 2014 the Vancouver City Council voted unanimously to take steps toward yet another official apology for “historical discrimination against people of Chinese… Read More »Head Tax? When Will Migrant Chinese Apologize for Rampant Racism in China Today?
Euro-Canadian (American, Swedish, Italian and Scottish) workers at a Canadian National Railway construction camp, BC, 1913 Official Interpretation The official interpretation of the Canadian government… Read More »Chinese and Whites in British Columbia from an Ethnocentric Perspective
I emailed my article Chinese Head Tax, White Apologies, and “Inclusive Redress” (26 May 2014) to the Mayor of Vancouver, Gregory Robertson, and to Vancouver… Read More »Reply to Vancouver Councillors Kerry Jang and Raymond Louie
Vancouver City Motion to Investigate Head Tax — Yet Again Raymond Louie, a Canadian with ancestry from China, currently serving his fourth term as Vancouver… Read More »Chinese Head Tax, White Apologies, and “Inclusive Redress”
