micropainter on Nostr: Senator Paula Simons' latest podcast covers how the Chinese Exclusion Act affected ...
Senator Paula Simons' latest podcast covers how the Chinese Exclusion Act affected Canadian Chinese (it's the 100th anniversary of the imposition of the Act).
I was today years old when I found out that the ID cards that my then-5-year-old father had to carry around was a "resident alien card"--even Canadian-born Chinese had to re-register to stay in Canada when the Exclusion Act came into effect in 1923.
http://senatorpaulasimons.ca/en/media/alberta-unbound/
#Racism #ableg #yyc #yeg #ChineseExclusionAct
I was today years old when I found out that the ID cards that my then-5-year-old father had to carry around was a "resident alien card"--even Canadian-born Chinese had to re-register to stay in Canada when the Exclusion Act came into effect in 1923.
http://senatorpaulasimons.ca/en/media/alberta-unbound/
#Racism #ableg #yyc #yeg #ChineseExclusionAct