Article: Chinese Head Tax Payers in British Columbia Receive Redress

Article: Chinese Head Tax Payers in British ...
Canadian Corporate News;  December 8, 2006 ;     591 words ...VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Dec 8, 2006 (CCNMatthews ... cheques to two residents of British Columbia who had paid the Chinese Head Tax. Joe Yew Chow and Kwan Lam ... its commitment to Chinese Head-Tax payers by providing these ...

Article: Apology for head tax tackles historical error
China Daily;  June 30, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... nation's notorious head tax, which was aimed ... payments to surviving head tax payers. An historical ... Canadian province of British Columbia. American miners ... Craigellachie, British Columbia on November 7, 1885. In 1885, a head tax of C$50 was imposed ...

Article: Canadian Heritage: Application Process in Place for Persons in a ...
Canadian Corporate News;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... 20,000 to living Head-Tax payers and living persons ... conjugal relationship with a Head-Tax payer who is now deceased ... ceremony in Vancouver, British Columbia, for the first ex ... immigrants who paid the Head Tax. The Honourable David ...

Article: Canadian Heritage: Application Process in Place for Persons in a ...
CCNMatthews Newswire;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... 20,000 to living Head-Tax payers and living persons ... conjugal relationship with a Head-Tax payer who is now deceased ... ceremony in Vancouver, British Columbia, for the first ex ... immigrants who paid the Head Tax. The Honourable David ...

Article: Geography of British Columbia: People and ...
American Review of Canadian Studies;  December 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... McGillivray. Geography of British Columbia: People and Landscapes ... McGillivray's Geography of British Columbia: People and Landscapes ... McGillivray subdivides British Columbia into eight regions ... for the immigration head tax. McGillivray limits ...

Article: No. 1 Mine: Racism Revisited. (Notebook/Carnet).(mining and race ...
Labour/Le Travail;  September 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... remember the dead -- has refocused attention on racism in British Columbia in the 19th and 20th centuries. Number One Mine on the edge ... Asiatic Exclusion League, the federal government's infamous head tax for Chinese immigrants, and significant race riots in Vancouver ...

Article: JUST VISITING; Norma-Jean McLaren is a cross-cultural planner ...
The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario);  March 19, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... with us that continue to be passed on to us. What's the legacy of residential schools? What's the legacy of the Chinese head tax? One of the legacies is that people who look like me say, you weren't in residential schools, so what is it to you? The ...