SOSC 1375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Africville, Islamophobia, Al-Qaeda
16 Jan 2018
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A) describe the immigration act of 1885 and discuss its implications on. The immigration act of 1885 imposed a head tax on all chinese men arriving in canada. Chinese men only because women and children were excluded from entry into the country. The tax was set at in 1885 but it rose to in 1900 and to by 1903. This shows how canadian society longed to remain primarily white as they implemented an expensive taxation in order to deter chinese individuals from immigrating to canada. This came after they encouraged chinese immigrants to come help build the canadian. Pacific railway, because they would work for cheap and there was a large number of them available. Section 38 (c) of the immigration act of 1910 allowed the government to prohibit the landing of immigrants under the continuous journey rule, and of immigrants. Belonging to any race deemed unsuited to the climate or requirements of.
