Research Catalog

Title

White Canada forever : popular attitudes and public policy toward Orientals in British Columbia / Peter Ward.

Author

Ward, W. Peter.

Publication

Montreal ; London : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.

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Details

Description

xxvii, 236 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

• "White British Columbians directed recurring outbursts of prejudice against the Chinese, Japanese, and East Indians who lived among them between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. Public pressure on local, provincial, and federal governments led to discriminatory policies in the field of immigration and employment, and culminated in the forced relocation of west coast Japanese residents during World War II.
• In White Canada Forever Peter Ward reveals the full extent and periodic virulence of west coast racism."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history ; 8.

Subjects

• Public opinion > British Columbia
• British Columbia > Race relations
• Chinese > British Columbia > Public opinion
• Japanese > British Columbia > Public opinion
• East Indians > British Columbia > Public opinion

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

1. Sinophobia Ascendant. 1. John Chinaman. 2. The Roots of Animosity. 3. Agitation and Restriction. 4. The Vancouver Riot -- 2. East Indian Interlude. 5. The Komagata Maru Incident -- 3. The Rise of Anti-Japanese Feeling. 6. Japs. 7. Exclusion. 8. Evacuation. 9. The Drive for a White B.C.

ISBN

0773523227(pbk.) :

OCLC

• 506112453
• ocn506112453
• SCSB-4272583

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries