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Head Tax

October 21, 2005
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Head Tax

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...

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