Document Record

Title

Chinese Times : [1921-12-09]
大漢公報 : [一九二一年十二月九日]

Published

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

Identifier

sfu.00001_19211209
00001_19211209

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

December 9 P.I 1) An article to praise Vice Consul General Chiu of Ottawa. P2-3 2) Dart Coon Club Van. - when of Calgary was in Vancouver enroute to China, Dart Coon Club held a tea party for him as well as sending him off at the pier. 3) CPOS Ship Asian Queen was returning to the Orient. Onboard over 900 passengers. p.3 4) Consul General Yeung Montreal news: him biography. His good deeds were being praised: He: (a) extended the time limit of absentee from Canada; (b) prevented the deportation of Chinese workers who entered Canada by using student status; more than 2000 workers had entered Canada during the war using student status and handing in $500 head tax. After the war, Van. Veteran's Assoc. and the Labour Union demanded the confiscation of the head tax as well as deportation of the Chinese workers. Yeung fought against this and finally the 2000 workers were allowed to stay, but with the head tax confiscated; (c) when Saskatchewan advocated the prohibition of Chinese employing white girls, Manitoba, and Ontario were also influenced. Yeungwas the first Consul to settle the issue and thus Chinese were allowed to hire workers who were white; (d) Chinese crewmen onboard the British liner were always discriminated by either reduction of salaries or by beatings. Yeung answered the SOS by the Montreal CBA and fought for a court hearing on the case. Yeung and the crewmen won. The crewmen, knowing the efficiency of CHA and Yeung, always donated money for the CBA in Montreal. As a result, CBA collected $300 basic funds to start the Chinese Public Hospital. 5) En-Ping Tung Fook H.Q. - Van. - announced on Dec. 7 that there would be a 1st anniversary celebration on Dec. 25.

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