Born in An Kai Lai, Kaiping County, Guangdong, China, (中國廣東開平縣安溪里) May 29, 1909. The second son but third child of Zhong Wan Chow (周宗浣) and Cheng Ho (何成) who had a total of four sons and three daughters. On June 28, 1923 he set sailed aboard the Empress of Australia from Hong Kong and...
Dad was born in 1899, the only child of Yin Chap (賢策) and Li Shi (利氏太夫人). Because of his father’s poor health, Dad, in 1916 at the age of 17, left the village (Tai Gang Tsun 大綱村) in Taishan, Guangdong, China boarded the Empress of Russia for Canada. According to his head tax paper...
We don’t have a lot of information on him but from data on hand and knowledge of Chinese customs we can make certain deductions. Firstly, it is safe to say that Xie Wingshui was born in 1883 or there about. His second daughter and fourth child, Der She Chow, was born in 1911. Males...
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...
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...
