Correspondence and papers re: schools

Correspondence and papers re: schools

British Columbia
Schools
Asian
Vancouver
migration
disenfranchisement
minority

A letter, with attached table of figures, from a secretary for the Vancouver Schools Board, to Vancouver City Alderman. The letter, in response to the Alderman’s request for information, details the enrolment history of Asian, predominantly Chinese, students in Vancouver schools over the nine years preceding. The impending amendments to the Schools Acts are discussed, the legitimacy of residency of Asian students and their families in particular school districts are of interest to the Alderman and the School Board. In the early twentieth-century Canada’s already established Chinese population, despite the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1923, moved in significant numbers to from rural areas to Vancouver, which led to instances of racial hatred and attempts to institutionally disenfranchise the Chinese peoples of Vancouver. This letter highlights the blatant distinguishing by the city’s leaders of the Asian population in Vancouver schools, and entails preliminary discussions of Asian disenfranchisement using the school system.

Board of School Trustees, Vancouver B.C.

Royal BC Museum Archives

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25 March 1938

Sebastian Jones

Royal BC Museum Archives
MS-0012.1.15 15/1,1a

English

Textual - typed letter

20th century British Columbia