HRM 3450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Chinese Head Tax In Canada, Masculinity, Rob Ford

• School: York University
• Department: Human Resources Management
• Course: HRM 3450
• Professor: Ron Ophir

Document Summary

Asians: those people whose origins can be traced to the asia and pacific region, including people from china, japan, korea, india, pakistan, bangladesh, philippines, sri lanka, Caucasians/whites: those people who origins can be traced to europe, west asia and. North america, including irish, german, italian, polish, russian, iranian, iraqi, lebanese, etc. Asian people: during the 19th century, chinese people arrived to take part in the bc gold rushes and later for the construction of the canadian pacific railway: chinese head tax. In the 1890s, japanese people arrived and became fishermen and merchants in. In the late 1890s, indian immigrants (most from punjab province) first arrived, and settled in vancouver: komagata maru in 1914: caused federal apology. In 1923, the federal government passed the chinese immigration act of 1923, which banned all chinese immigration, and led to immigration restrictions for all.