Tag Archive

Head Tax

By Woodson

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 &pound10 on all Chinese arrivals. Canada’s wasn’t the first to use legislature to bar Chinese from entering the country either. The...
Read more »

Search our site

Some sites we like