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Challenging a Hostile Community
1900-1939
From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: The Chinese Head Tax
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This chapter discusses the impact of legislated racism including the Head Tax on the Chinese Canadian community as well as the impact of events like the First World War and the Great Depression. It illustrates this with drawings, photographs, documents and firsthand accounts.
Contributors
Arlene Chan
ARLENE CHAN, a third-generation Chinese Canadian, is a retired librarian and author of non-fiction works for children, young adults, and adults on Chinese festivals and the Chinese in Canada. An avid dragon boat racer and gold-medalist on the Canadian National Women_x0092_s Dragon Boat Team, she lives, writes, and paddles in Toronto.
