Historian John Adams tells the story of the early years of the Chinese in Victoria — and much more.
The gold rush year of 1858 brought many new people to Victoria, primarily from San Francisco. The sudden explosion in the community, as it was transformed from a fort to a small, but bustling, town, resulted from the arrival of those people, and that sudden growth drew even more people here.Following a preliminary trip from San Francisco by three Chinese business leaders in May 1858, a large group of Chinese arrived in Victoria the following month.
In Chinese Victoria: A Long and Difficult Journey, historian John Adams tells the story of the early years of the Chinese in the city – and much more. Consider, for example, the language barrier. Even something basic, such as the names of the people he writes about, can cause problems. Those early news stories reflected the belief that members of the Chinese community were different, were doing unusual things, and perhaps were evil, because the writers — and the English-speaking community as a whole — might not have understood what was happening, or what was being said.
The infamous head tax, charged Chinese immigrants by the federal government, has become well-known in Canada. But what about the Chinese Exclusion Act that followed the head tax, with a goal of ending Chinese immigration rather than simply reducing it?Chinese were not allowed to live in Uplands until Raymond Hon Sam moved there in 1948.
It is loaded with hundreds of photographs, most of them colourized if not originally in colour, and detailed maps help tell the story of Chinatown and the rest of Greater Victoria.
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