British Columbia History
Using the further readings by Paul Yee, Hugh Johnston, and Midge Ayukawa and the textbook readings in Unit 5, evaluate the social, political, and economic experiences of Asian Canadians in British Columbia between 1886 and 1914.
Text:Jean Barman. The West beyond the West: A History of British Columbia. 3rd. ed. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 2007.
Chapter 7
Unit 5: Population Explosion, 18861914
Yee, Paul. Business Devices from Two Worlds: The Chinese in Early Vancouver. BC Studies 62 (Summer 1984): 4467.
Johnston, Hugh. Faith and Politics among Sikh Pioneers in Canada. International Journal of Punjab Studies 9, 1 (2002): 91112.
Ayukawa, Midge. Good Wives and Wise Mothers: Japanese Picture Brides in Early Twentieth-Century British Columbia, BC Studies 105/6 (Spring/Summer 1995): 103118.