PACIFIC RIM

The Pacific Ocean is like a bowl, with the Pacific rim as the edge of the bowl. British Columbia's northwest coast, Japan and China are a part of the pacific rim...
The ocean makes it easy to trade and travel between these countries. Because of this BC has been like a doorway to Canada for people from other pacific rim countries. Canada's first pacific rim immigrants came from Japan and China for the gold rush in 1858.

GOLD MOUNTAIN

Japanese and Chinese immigrants worked building the railroads in the 1880's.

PULL FACTORS:

• REASONS TO IMMIGRATE TO A COUNTRY:
• Employment: gold mountain; railroad; fishing; forestry; service industry in China Towns
• Land
• Homes
• Education
• Opportunity
• Freedom

PUSH FACTORS

PUSH FACTORS:

• Poverty
• Slavery
• Persecusion
• War
• No land or homes
• Extreme hardship

PREJUDICE

• Canada treated Asian immigrants poorly
• Chinese were given the most dangerous jobs on Railroad
• Canadian laws were created to keep them in separate communities: 'Chinatown'
• Canadian Government felt that Chinese did not fit in Canadian Society
• Passed immigration laws that were aimed at keeping Chinese out of Canada
• After the railway was built, a head tax of $50.00 per person was charged to keep Asian's from coming to Canada (1885)
• This tax was increased to $500.00, but Asian immigration continued

PREJUDICE TOWARDS CHINESE PEOPLE IN CANADA

CHINESE WORKERS WERE PAID LOWER WAGES

DUNCAN WAS OVERTLY RACIST TO CHINESE IMMIGRANTS

DRAGON

"HUMILIATION DAY"

DRAGON SONGS

EVERYONE WAS WELCOME

STATION, CRAIG & GOVERNMENT STREETS

ALL THAT REMAINSOF DUNCAN'S CHINATOWN

AFTER THE DEMOLITION OF CHINATOWN

• The Province took the land and built the Court House
• The City of Duncan expanded
• Chinese people who had owned businesses and homes were forced out
• Is this fair treatment?
• Is it prejudice?

IN 1947 CANADA CHANGED

• The ban on Asian Immigration was lifted
• Asian Canadians were given the right to vote

CHINESE CANADIANS CONTRIBUTED SIGNIFICANTLY

DAVID LAM

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