White Canada Forever, 8: Popular Attitudes and Public Policy Toward Orientals in British Columbia

by Peter M. Ward

Ward draws upon a rich record of events and opinion in the provincial press, manuscript collections, and successive federal enquiries and royal commissions on Asian immigration. He locates the origins of west coast racism in the frustrated vision of a white British Columbia and an unshakeable belief in the unassimilability of the Asian immigrant. Canadian attitudes were dominated by a series of interlocking, hostile stereotypes derived from western...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773508244
• ISBN13: 9780773508248
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 228 Pages