GEOG 3600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: South East Asia Command, Overseas Chinese, Chinese Canadians
16 Dec 2015
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China still regards the 65 million chinese living overseas as part of china (taiwan, 23 million. China"s prosperity has depended upon the investment of overseas china" their prosperity, in turn, depends upon china"s prosperity. Chinese canadians constitutes the second-largest visible minority group in canada. 1,346,510, compromises 3. 9% of the population in 2006. The first record of chinese in canada can be dated back to 1788. A british captain james meares hired 70 chinese carpenters from. Macau to build a ship the north west america, in vancouver. The first substantial wave of chinese immigrants into bc began in 1858 for gold mining from the california gold fields. Between 1881 and 1884, 17,000 chinese men from fujian and. Guangdong came to bc to work on building the canadian pacific. Chinese-canadian soldiers from vancouver bc, who served with the south east asia command (seac), awaiting repatriation to. Units), tweedsmuir camp, thursly, england, 27 november 1945.
