WHAT IS A CHINAMAN.
The recent meeting in Canada to protest against the influx of Chinese to the Colony suggests the question, what is a Chinaman? There is a difficulty about the answer which it appears has occurred to the Legislature.. Mr Sinister, a member of the Lower House Recently moved that the Government insert a clause in all contracts for the construction of the Canada Pacific Railway, that no man wearing his hair longer than five and a half inches shall he deemed eligible for employment on the said work. He went on to say, that as Chinese residents of British Columbia were Chinese subjects, this was the only shape in which he could bring up what was in reality a great national question. He referred to the immigration of the Chinese, and contended that in many ways their presence in British Columbia tended to retard its settlement and progress. The motion was intended to prevent their being employed on the Canada Pacific Railway. After some discussion the motion was voted down,
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Dunstan Times, Issue 864, 8 November 1878, Page 3
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