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Chinese
Title: Chinese
Category: History / North American History
Details: Words: 479 | Pages: 2.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
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In 1842 the Chinese came to work the gold fields in British Columbia they worked in Fraser valley and then they went into farming, gardening, domestic service, road construction, and railway builders.
When the United States got rid of slavery they found a new way to have cheap labour the Chinese. The Chinese immigrants mainly came from the coastal provinces of Guangdong and Fujian. They came from a life of poverty, and unrest and came to …showed first 75 words of 479 total…
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In the era of discrimination, a lot of Chinese were self-employment. A lot if family run businesses were opening like laundries and restaurants, they popped up in small towns and Chinatown was created across Canada. Chinatown was a good thing for Chinese people it allow people to operate and also work. There was discriminatory laws encouraged Chinese enterprises in Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia for example they were not allow to hire white females.
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