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Investigates the anti-Asiatic immigration law presented under the premiership of J. A. Macdonald. Explains why the anti-Asiatic immigration laws were generated. Official documents are quoted in order to illustrate the different attitudes taken up by the Federal and Provincial officals.
Native Sons of B.C. Argument...in opposition to granting of Oriental franchise. New Westminister, Jackson Printing, Co., 1932. (PA) NWp 971.65 N278a
Nesbitt, James. "Racial Prejudice Flowered in B.C. at turn of Century." Chinatown News. Vol. 22, no. 1, Sept. 3, 1974, pp. 3, 36.
Gives the views of the prejudiced British Columbians towards Japanese, Chinese, Hindus up til their acquisition of the vote in the 1940's.
Nicol, Eric. Vancouver. Toronto, Doubleday Canda Ltd., 1970.
Chapter 11 describes a murder case involving a Chinese house-boy who was falsely accused of murdering a white girl.
Palmer, H. D. "Anti-Oriental Sentiment in Alberta, 1800-1920." Can. Ethnic Studies. Vol. 2, no. 2, Dec. 1970, pp. 31-57.
Investigates the anti-Oriental sentiment in Alberta in the period before 1920. The causes of this hostility and the political parties' attitudes towards the Oriental problem is discussed.
"Prejudice v. Reason." Chinese News Weekly. Vol. 1, no. 3, Aug. 1936.
Comments on the deprivation of Chinese Canadians right to vote.
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