文档介绍：History of Chinese immigration to Canada
The first recorded visit by Chinese people to North America can be dated to 1788, with the employment of 30-50 Chinese shipwrights at Nootka Sound(努卡灣) in what is now British Columbia, who built the first European-type vessel in the Pacific Northwest, named the North West America.
Gold Rush
for the railway
in Canada after the
completion of the CPR
during the post-war period
in the 21st Century
The Gold Rush
The Chinese first appeared in large numbers in the Colony of Vancouver Island in 1858 as part of the huge migration to that colony from California during the Gold Rush in the newly-declared Mainland Colony.
Although the first wave arrived in May from California, news of the rush eventually attracted many Chinese from China itself.
Many Chinese remained in the province's Interior and North long after the Gold Rushes. Some towns were predominantly Chinese for many years, while in the Fraser Canyon and even more remote areas, Chinese miners stayed on to mine claims in wilderness areas.
Omineca Miner: Ah Hoo(阿胡)
(1913)
Immigration for the railway
Chinese railway workers made up the labor force for construction of two one-hundred mile sections of the Canadian Pacific Railway from the Pacific to Craigellachie(克雷盖拉希) in the Eagle Pass in British Columbia
In 1880, Andrew Onderdonk, an American who was one of the Canadian Pacific Railway construction contractors in British Columbia, originally enlisted Chinese labourers from California. When most of these deserted the railway workings for the goldfields, signed several agreements with Chinese contractors in China's Guangdong and Taiwan province.
Onderdonk engaged these Chinese labor contractors who engaged Chinese workers willing to accept only $1 a day while white, black and native workers were paid three times( $ 3) that amount.
Chinese railway workers were hired for 200 miles of the Canadian Pacific Railway con