THE ASIATIC PROBLEM

Shannon News, 8 April 1927, Page 4

THE ASIATIC PROBLEM

I:. INFLUX INTO CANADA. iY •. INCREASE OF JAPANESE. 6. _ ■ fe /' VANCOUVER, Feb. 20. i£._ Canada is learning for the first time • r -lvow serious its problem of Oriental -"penetration has become ) as a result ;'Of a comprehensive survey by government and municipal officials. This 7, indicates that tho Asiatic population ."- in British Columbia now stands at '.. 40,000, or 82 for every 1000 whites, ,-' one in 12. The population of all Asiatic races -• —Chinese, Japanese, Hindus —has

" -grown very rapidly of recent years. Japanese are rapidly outstripping Chinese. During the first quarter of the present century Japanese have increased five-fold in number, while V Chinese have been doubling their ; . population. }' ' Orientals in British Columbia hold -real property assessed at £2,300,000. * .Over 3000 Asiatics are licensed in i'i business. Asiatic industrial employ - number 12,000. The children of Orientals now number 3.53 per cent. ■' A new and significant feature of re-

*' cent years is the tendency of the Orciental to move over the Rockies and i 'across Canada to the older and more ''settled parts of the Dominion.