Other Asian Immigrants


Targets



This lesson is about other Asian immigrants in the early years.  You will learn about...

  • Japanese and Sikh immigrants
  • why they came to Canada
  • the reason for internment camps during World War II
  • The Continuous Passage Act

Introduction


Here are more immigrants to the Cordillera.  From where did they come?  What contributions have they made?  Learn more in this lesson.



Japanese American immigrants from Hawaii who arrived in Victoria, BC in 1907. Were some of these American immigrants who tore up their indenture contracts with the sugar cane operators of Northern Hamakua, Hawaii before they fled to Canada?


Among the earliest Sikhs to arrive in Vancouver. (Photo source: in "Canada's New Immigrants", by J. Barkley Williams and Saint N. Sing. Canadian Magazine, 28:383,1906)