Grade 9 Gallery

Lesson 2: Chinese Immigration to BC

Archive Package: 1885-1922 (Head Tax)

Images

Documents

Placer Mining Claims (Lillooet)

Public Works Contract

Coroner’s Inquest: Fitzwilliam Mine

Exclusion Act 1885

Report on the Oriental Situation

Provincial Secretary Correspondence

Oriental Immigration Speech 1907

Property Losses in Vancouver Riot

Story Sheet: CD Hoy

Fact Sheet: 1885-1922

Quote Sheet: 1885-1922

Media

Interview with Charles Tobacco (00:04:26)

Excerpt from interview with Charles Tobacco, a miner in the original Cumberland mines, reflecting on the inequality in pay for Chinese miners
Interview with Charles Tobacco. Cumberland History Project. (1975): Sound Clip T-4260_0015_1. Courtesy of the Royal BC Museum and Archives, The coal Tyee Society, and Cumberland Museum Collection.

Interview with Dick Mah (00:010:20)

Dick Mah remembers his successful merchant grandfather Bing Kee in Nanaimo, a contrasting story to the poverty of the Chinese miners in Cumberland
Interview with Dick Mah. Cumberland History Project. (1983): Sound Clip T4051_0080_1. Courtesy of The Coal Tyee Society, CHUB radio (http://www.islandradio.bc.ca/contact.htm), and the Royal BC Museum and Archives.