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The launch of the North-West America at Nootka Sound, 1788. In 1788, some 120 Chinese contract labourers arrived at Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island. [1] [2]: 312 British fur trader John Meares recruited an initial group of 50 sailors and artisans from Canton and Macao, China, hoping to build a trading post and encourage trade in sea otter pelts between Nootka Sound and Canton. [1]
As former colonies of Europe, the coastal African nations of Madagascar, Mauritius, and South Africa were the main receiving points of Chinese immigrants from the 1890s to the early part of the 20th century. The early Chinese arrived to labour in the Transvaal gold mines of South Africa and on the Tananrive Tamatave railway of Madagascar. Many ...
From 1923 to 1967, immigration from China was suspended due to exclusion laws. In 1997, the handover of Hong Kong to China caused many from there to flee to Canada due to uncertainties. Between 1881 to 1884, over 17, 0000 Chinese immigrants arrived in Canada to build the Canadian pacific Railway, and later to maintain it. [1]
From China to Canada: A History of the Chinese Communities in Canada is a 1982 book edited by Edgar Wickberg and published by McClelland & Stewart. [1] It was collectively produced by five authors: [ 2 ] Wickberg, Harry Con, Ronald J. Con, Graham Johnson, and William E. Willmott.
The expansion of Chinese companies and their investments in Africa has raised issues of Chinese racism against the local population. [ 162 ] [ 163 ] [ 164 ] For example, after a video shot by a Kenyan worker whose Chinese boss referred to Kenyans as "monkeys" went viral in 2018, more examples of discrimination by Chinese nationals in the ...
The Chinese Immigration Act, 1923 prohibited Chinese from obtaining Crown land and it prevented Chinese who were not persons born in Canada, diplomats, businesspersons, and university students from immigrating to Canada. [39] The Canadian Encyclopedia wrote that the act "effectively ended Chinese immigration."
Chinese Canadians are Canadians of full or partial Han Chinese ancestry, which includes both naturalized Chinese immigrants and Canadian-born Chinese. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] They comprise a subgroup of East Asian Canadians which is a further subgroup of Asian Canadians .
Their descendants today are found among the current populations of these countries, but also among the migrant communities with Anglo-Caribbean origins residing mainly in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. Some overseas Chinese were sold to South America during the Punti–Hakka Clan Wars (1855–1867) in the Pearl River Delta in ...