What province of Canada was the first to have a large Asian population?
1 Answer
British Columbia
Explanation:
Chinese people, mostly men, were brought in from various places in China and as early as the 1780s. Many came from Guangdong province. The mid 1800s was a time of great unrest and civil war in China. Mostly they were brought in as laborers although many came on their own from California during several Gold rushes during the mid 1800s.
The Railway contracted many Chinese from California. Many more Chinese were brought from China in the build the Canadian Pacific Railway. Restrictive anti Chinese legislation was struck down by the Canadian Federal Government until 1885 after the Railway was completed.
The Chinese worked cheaply and were co-operative and sober at work. There was increasing anti Chinese sentiment in the late 1800s.
Sun Yat-sen visited British Columbia to get support to change the government in China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Canadians_in_British_Columbia
