The Ship
This ship arrived in Vancouver in 1914 carrying 376 passengers from British India.
What is the Komagata Maru?
Chinese people worked in gold mining, laundries, restaurants, and on this major project.
What is the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR)?
This group from the Pacific Islands worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company in the early 1800s.
Who are the Kanakas?
This 1907 event involved violent attacks against Chinese and Japanese communities in Vancouver.
What are the Vancouver Race Riots?
These schools were designed to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro‑Canadian culture.
What are residential schools?
Most passengers were denied entry because of this regulation.
What is the Continuous Journey Regulation?
10/30 of 201
67
These immigrants came to BC during the Gold Rush because slavery was illegal in the British Empire.
Who were Black immigrants?
The riots lasted for this many days.
3 days
Residential schools attempted to erase Indigenous language, traditions, and this.
What is culture?
The ship was forced to stay in Vancouver harbour for this length of time.
What is two months?
This tax was charged to Chinese immigrants entering Canada starting in 1885.
What is the Chinese Head Tax?
By 1863, this immigrant group had built a strong business community in Victoria.
Who were Jewish immigrants?
The riots were caused by fear and this belief.
Racism
The first residential school opened in this year.
What is 1831?
Where did the ship sail from?
Hong Kong
The Head Tax eventually increased to this maximum amount.
500 CAD
This was the largest non‑European immigrant group in BC in the 1800s.
Who were Chinese immigrants?
The riots were driven by fear that Asian immigrants were doing this to white workers.
The last residential school in Canada closed in this year.
1996
When the ship returned to India, this many passengers were killed by British Indian police.
What is 20?
his contractor hired large numbers of Chinese workers in BC to lower railway construction costs.
Who is Andrew Onderdonk?
Many early immigrant communities, including Kanakas and Black settlers, built farms on this island.
What is Salt Spring Island?
Fear and racism after the riots led to unfair laws that affected this group of people most.
Who are Asian immigrants?
The harm caused by residential schools continues today as this lasting effect.
What is trauma?