June 29, 2023

Chinese Canadians rallied unsuccessfully to fight the act a century ago. By Denise Fong and 1923 Collective One hundred years ago, Chinese community leaders from across Canada travelled to Ottawa to attend Senate hearings on the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act. “Seven or eight members of the race decorate the Senate galleries daily during the discussion of the […]

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The term ‘Chinese Canadian’ was first publicly used by the Chinese Canadian Club, which was established in 1914 in Vancouver and Victoria. Originally, it is a club that made up of a group of young men, and it became politically active within a few years. However, their campaign for the right to vote for Canadian-born

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