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回复:在漫长的辱华和排华岁月中,保守党和自由党都难辞其咎。
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在漫长的辱华和排华岁月中,保守党和自由党都难辞其咎。
It is a MUST READ! 古伟凯, 《星岛日报》前总编辑。 I have been reading 古伟凯 for 15+years.
在漫长的辱华和排华岁月中,保守党和自由党都难辞其咎。
这遍文跟历史记载有很大的分别, 公信力何在??? 请看历史事实
Perspective: Chinese Labourers
The treatment of migrant labour in Canada reveals the limited extent to which immigration was actually open to all. Chinese labourers had long been attracted to British Columbia, previously working in the fur trade and joining mine workers by the time of the Gold Rush of 1859. After Confederation and following the beginning of railway construction, larger numbers of Chinese migrants, first from California, later from Hong Kong, arrived in British Columbia. When an American contractor began building the B.C. section of the CPR, the numbers of Chinese labourers significantly increased. Between 1881 and 1884, some 15,701 Chinese males came to British Columbia, many to work on the railway.
Local prejudice grew against these newcomers who were characterized as "unassimilable" migrants. Negative stereotypes of Chinese males circulated in local press editorials
and in B.C.'s legislature. Local complaints against Chinese and Japanese labour consistently ebbed and flowed with the province's economic booms and busts, and usually intensified in periods when locals believed that poorly paid Asian labourers were taking jobs from Euro-Canadians. During more difficult economic periods, fears rose that the "Yellow Peril" would "inundate" the British race.
Such local fears became a powerful political rallying point for members of B.C.'s political community, who demanded immigration restrictions from the federal government. Patricia Roy's study of B.C. politicians and their policies towards Chinese and Japanese immigrants suggests that racial and economic fears prompted local political action. The B.C. government introduced a series of acts to limit and restrict Asian immigration as early as 1878. The federal government disallowed almost all of them. Macdonald's federal government would not "close" the door to Chinese labour because business interests, mostly in Montreal, saw the benefits of this work force. Poorly paid and exposed to the deadly hazards of mountain valley blasting and construction work - many Chinese labourers died through disease and injury in this treacherous terrain -- the Chinese labourer was understood as integral to the railway's completion. |
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