Document Record

Title

Chinese Times : [1921-09-08]
大漢公報 : [一九二一年九月八日]

Published

Vancouver, British Columbia : Tai Hon Kong Bo Ltd., 1921

Identifier

sfu.00001_19210908
00001_19210908

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

september 8 P2-3 1) En-yap members - received a letter from En-yap district that there was a need to set up a newspaper as well as a library. The En-yap members in Van. immediately held a meeting whereby the En-Yap Tong Fok long was to become the fund raising H.Q. headed by . During the meeting, over 200 members attended, $1800 was raised for the newspaper and $1600 was raised for the library. P.3 2) Global news - an article about 'disaster caused by Chinese1 . Chinese were accused of cheating the government of Head tax. (continued on Sept. 9/10). The writer added, during the construction of the railway, no Head tax was needed. Later, $50 Head Tax was required, and still many Chinese came, until ±fi 1905, the head tax was raised to $500. Following the influx of Chinese, Japanese came, too. In 1913, restrictive immigration law was enforced, thus allowing only politicians, merchants and family, tourists, scientists, ministers and students to gain entry. It was reported that at Canton Street, there was a company which sold false shares to customers, thus allowing the shareholders to come into Canada. (When they came, they would sell the shares to someone else.) However, the writer thought Japanese immigrants were worst because their productive rate was much higher than Chinese. 3) Retail Merchant Convention at Winnipeg - the representative from B.C. asked for total exclusion of E. Asians. 4) CKT Nanaimo - celebrated the 5-ancestor day on Sept. 4. 5) Hoysun Assoc. - a book about Sun Ning County was published. P.2 6) Protective Assoc. of 4 cities: thanked the donors.

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