TIL Chinatowns in Canada were largely “bachelor

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TIL Chinatowns in Canada were largely “bachelor societies,” where men outnumbered women by a ratio of almost twenty‐eight to one in 1923. Many Chinese men came hoping to save enough money to bring over their families but died alone as the law basically made it impossible for them to marry someone
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The Chinese head tax and the Chinese Exclusion Act | CMHR

When he was a little boy growing up in Vancouver, Dr. Henry Yu didn’t understand why his grandfather frequently took him on long walks to visit Chinatown.

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