Chinese Workers
The daily wage for Chinese railway workers
One dollar
What was built to connect Canada from coast to coast and helped unite the country politically and geographically?
Canadian Pacific Railway - CPR
To keep Chinese people out of Canada
The equivalent of $50 in 1885 in today's money?
$1,750
How much did the government of Canada offer in compensation to surviving individuals who had paid the head tax and to the souses of deceased head tax payers
$20,000
this many Chinese workers arrived in Canada from 1881-1885
17,000 Chinese men
A major challenge faced by Canada in the 1880's?
To build a railroad all the way across Canada to the Pacific Ocean
The Canadian government believed that if the head tax was high enough that it would?
Stop Chinese people trying to immigrate
What year did the Chinese Exclusion Act ban end?
1923
What two programs did the Canadian government create to educate people about the dark chapter in our history?
A $24 million community historical recognition program and a $10 million national historical recognition program.
What were Chinese people entering Canada between 1885 and 1923 forced to pay?
a head tax
The railway was completed in what year
1885
The head tax was collected by forcing people to pay based on their?
nationality - something that was deeply unfair.
Between what years did the Chinese Head tax apply?
1885 - 1923
The head tax is an example of an unfair
Law
Working conditions were extremely?
harsh and dangerous
By 1923, Chinese communities in Canada were what historians call?
bachelor societies - places where men greatly outnumbered women.
The ratio of Chinese men to women coming into Canada was almost?
28 men for every 1 woman - 28:1
Chinese people were almost entirely banned from entering Canada until what year?
1947
Which Prime Minister passed the Chinese Immigration Act in 1885?
John A. Macdonald
This many Chinese workers lost their lives during the building of the railway
700 - 4,000 workers
The railway had to cross through?
mountains, forests, and dangerous terrain
Why could Chinese families not reunite sometimes for decades?
because of the high cost of the head tax. It went from $50 to $100 then in 1903 it as raised $500 per person which is approximately $18,000 in today's money.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper
The head tax and Chinese Exclusion Act were recognized as terrible?
Mistakes that were unfair in particular to one group of immigrants