SOSC 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Clifford Sifton, Chinese Head Tax In Canada, Stout
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National policies, labour migration and inequalities 1: class. Within these 3 policies, you have the framework of immigration. Supported immigration for agriculture, eastern and southern europeans particularly for agriculture settlement. Also supported chinese head tax, alien labour act (1897) I think a stalwart peasant in a sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half-dozen children, is good quality. He felt strongly that town dwellers, artisans, shopkeepers and labourers were not desirable immigrants as they didn"t make good pioneers and would increase the population of the major cities, add to unemployment, create slum areas. Monument of the chinese railroad workers in canada. Built transportation to join the country (canada) natural form or development. Nation of state: one in which a supreme political authority is based on & represent the will and feelings of its people (palmer & colton, 558)
