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Hacking the Historical Data: Register of Chinese Immigrants to Canada, 1886-1949
Date created: 2019-05-03 02:02 PM | Last Updated: 2019-06-12 06:44 PM
Identifier: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/9ZR6F
Category: Project
Description: Hacking for the Register of Chinese Immigrants to Canada, 1886-1949. We aim to lower the barriers to using the data. Demystified variables, converted dataset, R script, data visualisations and more. We also want you to see the untapped potential in this dataset that has cost massive money, time and efforts of many people to build. The project will be of interest to historians, digital humanities scholars, or anyone who's interested in the history of headtax on Chinese immigrants to Canada.
A History of Discrimination and Exclusion
Through the mid- to late nineteenth century, some 15,000 labourers were brought from China to do construction work on the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), though they were only paid a third or a half less than their co-workers
Responding to anti-immigration sentiment in British Columbia, the federal parliament passed in 1885 the Chinese Immigration Act, whi…
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