On April 13, 2006, 5:23pm Henry Lee posted: Hi, I was wondering if anyone could find a place named: Ng Wa also known as Bak Mong Fa in Guangdong? Also, do you have maps of these places?: Dun Zi Tao and Se Hou? (The Pinyin is in cantonese) Thanks in advance! Bookmark to:
When Canada in 1885 imposed a $50 head tax on Chinese immigrants it wasn’t the only nor the first country to do so, Australia in November 19, 1857 imposed a head tax of £10 on all Chinese arrivals. Canada’s wasn’t the first to use legislature to bar Chinese from entering the country either. The...
Senator Vivian Poy addressed the 12th AGM of the National Congress of Chinese Canadians at the Winnipeg Chinese Cultural and Community Centre September 13, 2003. Thank you for inviting me to discuss the Head Tax issue with all of you today. Even though I have not, up until this point, taken part in any...
We thank Elizabeth E. Bullard-Watson, County Coordinator, Plumas County GenWeb, for taking these photos and so kind to let us use it here. What follows is part of an email she wrote which gives some historic background to these markers. The headstones are located at the Quincy Chinese Cemetery in Quincy, CA. I have...
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...
