Tightening the reins on the Oriental in British Columbia

Tightening the reins on the Oriental in British Columbia

British Columbia
Race relations
Race discrimination
Asian experience
Chinese

The source is a short newspaper article in a newspaper called the Canadian Grocer. The newspaper features the headline ‘Tightening the reins on the Oriental in British Columbia’.

The article discussed the competition between Chinese retailers and White retailers. It highlights the need to regulate hours of work for the Chinese merchants to have been a dominant issue that needed to be put in place in order to protect the interest of the white retailer.

The source represents the issue of economic competition between Asian immigrants and the white population. It also links to themes such as differences in morality and the inability to assimilate into society. The article supports the overall issue of Asian discrimination in 20th Century British Columbia.

Canadian Grocer

University of British Columbia Library

https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/chung/chungtext/items/1.0354884#p0z-4r0f:head%20tax

16 January 1925

Faye Hare

University of British Columbia Library

English

Textual - printed newspaper

29th century British Columbia