In A Strange Land : A Pictorial Record Of The Chinese In Canada 1788 - 1923

From the arrival of Chinese labourers at Nootka Sound in the late eighteenth century to the introduction of the Chinese Immigration Act in 1923, the history of Chinese settlement in Canada reflects both the contributions of immigrant communities and the barriers they faced.

Drawing on a wide range of archival photographs and historical sources, Richard Thomas Wright traces the early history of the Chinese in Canada from 1788 to 1923. The volume examines immigration, gold rushes, railway construction, mining communities, clan associations, Chinatowns, the head tax, discrimination, exclusion, and the changing social and economic conditions experienced by Chinese Canadians during this period.

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