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The Story of Tan Yankai
"Chinese Canadians are making an extraordinary impact on the building of our country. They've also made a significant historical contribution despite many obstacles. That's why, as I said during the election campaign, the Chinese Canadian community deserves an apology for the head tax and appropriate acknowledgment and redress." - Stephen Harper, 2006
Compensation
Contributions to Canada
- Helped build the CPR
- Wife and children opened a laundry shop in Vancouver
-Eldest son went to Fraser Valley to hunt for gold
Life in Canada
Arriving to Canada
- Leaving from Guangzhou port, arriving at Port New Westminster
- Head Tax was $250 ($6 578.95 today)
- Paying for Head Tax was tough, due to most immigrants being illiterate farmers
- Faced resentment from Canadian citizens
- Worked as a labourer on the CPR
-Rejected by the Canadians, but welcomed an encouraged by CPR owners
- Chinese workers were used to working for Europeans doing similar farm and general labour work
-Life was hard, but better than living in China
Pull Factors
-Fraser Valley gold rush
-CPR wanted to hire chinese workers due to low wages
-Chinese where used to working with European's
Push Factors
-Farmland was over exploited and was not producing enough food to support Guangdong's growing population
-Peasants revolt, Taiping Rebellions
-Fear of European colonization
- Increased taxes to pay off British debt
Who was Tan Yankai
Immigration Project
-Very poor father of three
- A husband
-A peasant farmer
-From the Guangdong province of south-eastern China
By- Max Rogers