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The Chinese first came to British Columbia (BC) from California with news of gold on the Fraser River. They arrived in Victoria and continued northward into the interior. However, the migration directly from China didn’t begin until the spring of 1859 when the first arrival from Hong Kong took place. By early 1860′s it...
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...
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...
