LEADER 05399nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910780677403321 005 20230912160159.0 010 $a1-283-22648-0 010 $a9786613226488 010 $a0-7748-5463-4 024 7 $a10.59962/9780774854634 035 $a(CKB)2430000000000403 035 $a(OCoLC)243581539 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10134750 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000391293 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11261304 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000391293 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10336998 035 $a(PQKB)10839881 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3412159 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10141269 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL322648 035 $a(OCoLC)923442336 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/3/404437 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3412159 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3245045 035 $a(DE-B1597)661401 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780774854634 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000000403 100 $a19890417d1989 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA white man's province$b[electronic resource] $eBritish Columbia politicians and Chinese and Japanese immigrants, 1858-1914 /$fPatricia E. Roy 210 $aVancouver $cUniversity of British Columbia Press$d1989 215 $a1 online resource (346 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7748-0373-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tForeword -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tThe Colonial Sojourners, 1858-1871 -- $t"A World of Their Own": Morality, Law, and Public Health, 1871-1914 -- $tConfederation, the Chinese, and the Canadian Pacific Railway, 1871-1885 -- $tChecking Chinese and Japanese Competition, 1886-1896 -- $tThe Politics of Restricting Immigration, 1896-1902 -- $tChecking Competition within British Columbia, 1896-1902 -- $tThe Lull before the Storm, 1903-1907 -- $tThe Vancouver Riot and Its Consequences, 1907-1908 -- $tMaking a White Man's Country, 1908-1914 -- $tEpilogue -- $tAppendix -- $tNotes -- $tManuscript Sources -- $tIndex 330 $aWe are not strong enough to assimilate races so alien from us in their habits ? We are afraid they will swamp our civilization as such. ? Nanaimo Free Press, 1914 A White Man's Province examines how British Columbians changed their attitudes towards Asian immigrants from one of toleration in colonial times to vigorous hostility by the turn of the century and describes how politicians responded to popular cries to halt Asian immigration and restrict Asian activities in the province. White workingmen objected to Asian sojourning habits, to their low living standards and wages, and to their competition for jobs in specific industries. Because employers and politicians initially supported Asian immigrants, early manifestations of antipathy often appeared just as another dispute between capital and labour. But as their number increased, complaints about Asians became widespread, and racial characteristics became the nucleus of such terms as a 'white man's province' ? a 'catch phrase' which, as Roy notes, 'covered a wide variety of fears and transcended particular economic interests.' The Chinese were the chief targets of hostility in the nineteenth century; by the twentieth, the Japanese, more economically ambitious and backed by a powerful mother country, appeared more threatening. After Asian disenfranchisement in the 1870s, provincial politicians, freed from worry about the Asian vote, fueled and exploited public prejudices. The Asian question also became a rallying cry for provincial rights when Ottawa disallowed anti-Asian legislation. Although federal leaders such as John A. Macdonald and Wilfrid Laurier shared a desire to keep Canada a 'white man's country,' they followed a policy of restraint in view of imperial concerns. The belief that whites should be superior, as Roy points out, was then common throughout the Western world. Many of the arguments used in British Columbia were influenced by anti-Asian sentiments and legislation emanating from California, and from Australia and other British colonies. Drawing on almost every newspaper and magazine report published in the province before 1914, and on government records and private manuscripts, Roy has produced a revealing historical account of the complex basis of racism in British Columbia and of the contribution made to the province in these early years by its Chinese and Japanese residents. 606 $aChinese$zBritish Columbia$xHistory 606 $aJapanese$zBritish Columbia$xHistory 606 $aImmigrants$zBritish Columbia$xHistory 607 $aBritish Columbia$xRace relations 607 $aBritish Columbia$xPolitics and government 607 $aChina$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory 607 $aJapan$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory 607 $aBritish Columbia$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory 615 0$aChinese$xHistory. 615 0$aJapanese$xHistory. 615 0$aImmigrants$xHistory. 676 $a971.1/004951 700 $aRoy$b Patricia$f1939-$01499687 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780677403321 996 $aA white man's province$93725938 997 $aUNINA