Asian Canadians

I actually have a large family population in Canada, specifically Vancouver.  After we have been reading about Chinese Americans and their reasoning for coming to America, I began to research what drove the Asian Canadians to Canada.  Apparently they arrived during 1900s (slightly later than when the Chinese arrived in the US) and came for many of the same reasons that the Asian Americans came from.  The Chinese specifically came to work on the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the Japanese came to become fishermen and merchants.  Again, a Chinese Exclusion Act was put in place to prohibit Chinese from becoming citizens called the Chinese Immigration Act of 1923, but it was repealed in 1947.

Its interesting how similar the stories are between different nations on the same continent even.  The tenet that seems to best describe this situation has to be 1, that racism is ordinary.  The general reception of Chinese during the late 1800s and early 1900s has been hostile throughout North America.