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== History ==
The first record of Chinese in what is known as Canada today could be dated back to 1788. British Captain Jamese Meares hired a group of Chinese carpenters from Macau and settled on Nootka Sound on [[Vancouver Island, British Columbia]]. However, there are no further informations to the Chinese carpenters' whereabouts.
Many workers from Fujian and Guangdong Province arrived to help build the [[Canadian Pacific Railway]] in the [[19th century]]. Many of these workers accepted the disadvantage of working long hours with minimal wages in order to support their large families that remained in China because they could not get permission to enter Canada. Their willingness to endure hardship to get paid enraged fellow non-Chinese workers who thought they were unnecessarily complicating the labour market situations. From [[1885]] the Canadian government began to charge a substantial [[head tax]] for each Chinese person trying to immigrate to Canada. In [[1923]] the Canadian government banned Chinese immigration completely, with exceptions to merchants, diplomats, and students, or "special circumstances" (the category in which the current Governor General Adrienne Clarkson's family belonged to).
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