Document Record

Title

Chinese Times : [1917-04-07]
大漢公報 : [一九一七年四月七日]

Published

Vancouver, British Columbia : Tai Hon Kong Bo Ltd., 1917

Identifier

sfu.00001_19170407
00001_19170407

Subject

Chinese Canadians--Newspapers
Chinese--Newspapers
Chinese Canadians--British Columbia--Vancouver--Newspapers
Chinese--British Columbia--Vancouver--Newspapers
British Columbia--Newspapers
Vancouver (B.C.)--Newspapers
華裔加拿大人--不列顛哥倫比亞--溫哥華--歷史--報紙
華人--不列顛哥倫比亞--溫哥華--歷史--報紙
中國--歷史--二十世紀--報紙
加拿大--歷史--二十世紀--報紙
不列顛哥倫比亞--歷史--二十世紀--報紙
溫哥華 (不列顛哥倫比亞)-- 歷史--二十世紀--報紙

Document source

University of British Columbia Library

Collection

Newspapers
Serials: Periodicals, Annuals and Newspapers

Language

Chinese

Description

April 7th, Saturday P. 3 1. The C.B.A. in Vancouver announced on the 7th that the Chinese School for native born Chinese or illiterate Overseas Chinese would be officially opened on May 7 . The school would provide courses in Chinese literature , English, Math, history and geography. There were junior and senior classes, , three teachers ( I !JK_ i^"\ A^. w^° was a graduate in Japan and an ex- teacher in Canton, "Gp -£ ^t who was a graduate from U.B.C. teaching college, and finally TQ, \ % TO who graduated from Canton) were hired to be teachers in the new school. 2. A report by Ambassador Yeung on the restrictive law in Manitoba: Early in 1913, there was the law prohibiting Chinese from employing female whites. However, the enforcement of the law was retained until 1917 when this law was re-considered. Ambassador Yeung immediately argued with the authority hoping to cancel the law. He reported that in 1913 the police accused the Chinese restauranters of forcing their female white employees to prostitute, and now in 1917, the police used the same excuse to persecute the Chinese. Ambassador Yeung then guaranteed that the Chinese were more conservative than the whites and they were self-disciplined, so he hoped that the authority might cancel such restrictive law. Consequently Ambassador won (April 8th + April 9th, P. 3.

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