The following articles are written by CBC News Online staff. Tue, 08 Oct 2002 TORONTO – An elderly Toronto woman plans to keep fighting for an apology and compensation for abuse she suffered decades ago in a provincial reformatory. Velma Demerson was arrested and jailed in a tiny cell 60 years ago after authorities...
by Peter Leeson Sydney James Leesoon 1875 – 1942 Sydney James Lee Soon, eldest son of Lee Soon (Li Jiquan) and Elizabeth Lee Soon, was born in Ballarat on 27th June 1875. Little is known about his early years, other than he grew up with his family around Golden Point (China Town), where his...
by Peter Leeson Li Jiquan 李積銓 As there is no record of Lee Soon entering the country and as there is also no record of the ship he lists on his naturalisation application as having travelled on, it is assumed he was one of the many Chinese immigrants tricked into paying the Victorian Immigration...
by Peter Leeson Chinese immigration to Australia The majority of Immigrants were poor farmers who were lured away from their villages by the agent of the Crimp, a man whose job it was to recruit workers for Australia or as it was known to them Xinjinshan, (New Golden Mountain). Some of the men who...
by Peter Leeson The research This is the story of Peter Lee’s search for his roots. We are most grateful to Peter for giving us permission to reproduce it here: The research of the Australian Descendants of Li Jiquan (Lee Soon) has been predominantly conducted by Peter Leeson, great, great grandson of Li Jiquan...
The Limits of Righting Historic Wrongs by Cynthia Koller Counsel, Regulatory Section Justice Canada In April 2003, the Supreme Court of Canada denied plaintiffs leave to appeal in Shack Jang Mack Quen Ying Lee and Yew Lee v. Attorney General of Canada. In doing so, the Court shed some light on a sensitive but...
Chinese Canadians appeal for apology, compensation for head tax by Amy Carmichael Canadian Press Monday, June 10, 2002 TORONTO (CP) – Chinese immigrants forced to pay a discriminatory $500 head tax to enter Canada continued their fight for redress Monday with an appeal of a ruling that threw out their suit against the federal...
Onetime immigrants want redress over head tax in claim that would total $1-billion by Caroline Alphonso Tuesday, December 19, 2000 Globe and Mail VANCOUVER — With their numbers dwindling each year, Chinese Canadians who had to pay a head tax to enter the country a lifetime ago are suing the federal government to try...
The Canadian case for compensation Kenda Gee – comments on the Australian view The author misses the point concerning redress, entirely. Redress is a process involving individuals who were harmed. And it holds government accountable, particularly as it continues to re-invent mistakes from the past. On those notes – money isn’t important. Yet, it...
An Australian view of the apology After my initial great and excited euphoria over Helen Clark’s apology on behalf of the NZ Government and people, I became very worried as I began to receive messages, first indicating prominent NZ commentators calling for the “next step” by way of compensation, and secondly, from the various...
