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Chinese Canadian in Canada Timeline
1858 ~ the first Chinese came to British Columbia from California
1860 ~ more Chinese sailed directly from China to British Columbia. With no mining experience, but they followed the surge of eager gold-seekers with their gold-pans 1863 ~ four thousand Chinese were working in the Cariboo Wagon Road 1866 ~ Western Union employed some five hundred Chinese to string telegraph wires between New Westminster and Quesnel 1870 ~ fish canneries were established along the British Columbia coast, and Chinese workers dominated cannery work because labour shortage still plagued the new province 1875-1923 ~ British Columbia passed numerous bills to restrict the civil rights of the Chinese 1881-1885 ~ seventeen thousand Chinese came to Canada and many worked on the railway 1883 ~ nearly two thousand gold miners in the province, almost fifteen hundred were Chinese 1885 ~ Canadian government passed the first anti-Chinese bill 1923 ~ the exclusion era runs, during which time no Chinese were allowed to immigrate to Canada and those already here were denied many of their civil right The End of World War II ~ a new epoch as the Chinese gained their civil right and began to build a new post-was community Back to home page
