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Chinese. By: Cole and Joseph. Why the Chinese left their country.

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  1. Chinese By: Cole and Joseph

  2. Why the Chinese left their country • Most of the Chinese that came to Canada to work in the Cariboo gold rush or the CPR planned to return to China once they had made enough money to return so they were not forced out of China they just simply came to Canada for a new life and a way to support their families.

  3. Why the Chinese came to Canada • The main pull factor for Chinese to migrate too Canada was because of the CPR along with the gold rush. Chinese men came over to make a decent wage, either they wanted to come, work for a few years then go back home to buy a farm or they would have stayed and hoped for the best come the end of the gold rush.

  4. The immigration policies hindering the Chinese arrival in Canada • Canadian workers resented the Chinese workers because they were willing to work very hard for very little pay • A head tax of $50 a person was set for the Chinese immigrants entering Canada • To prevent large amounts of Asians and East Indians coming into Canada they were required to take a non-stop route to Canada which was almost physically impossible so this made it very hard for Asians to come to Canada

  5. Social Status of the Chinese • The Canadian government took many steps to insure the low social status of the Chinese and to make it hard for them to immigrate to Canada. Canadians put a head tax of 50 dollars which in todays day would be around $1,100 they did this because they believed the Chinese would be too poor to afford this so they would not immigrate to Canada. In 1871 British Colombia made it so that no Chinese person could vote or work on public works projects such as the railway or roads. The Chinese were very low on the social ladder when they first came to live and work in Canada.

  6. Chinese Contributions • in order to obtain a better life for themselves and their family most Chinese people moved to Canada to work on the Canadian Pacific Railway. Without their cheap labor, there would have been no chance to get such a substantial loan from the government for its completion. without them Canada would have taken much longer to grow economically and geographically.

  7. At 6 o clock Xi Chan woke up to eat breakfast, within half an hour he'd be working so there was no time to spare. The diet they ate consisted of old crackers, beans and pork at times. Xi Chan's work day was long and grueling, roughly 12 hours a day. they stopped once for lunch, and when it got too dark to continue they set up camp. Xi was part of a team called the spikers, they'd drive the spikes into the ground holding in place the part of the track that had already been laid by groups ahead. as it got dark, the men sat around the fire and generally played cards or talked of there lives previous to their expedition on the railway.

  8. Bibliography • http://www.ccnc.ca/toronto/history/info/info.html • Cranny, Michael William. Horizons: Canada moves West. Scarborough, Ont.: Prentice Hall Ginn Canada, 1999. Print. • I have a small wee wong.

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