CH-0065 · RESEARCH DRAFT
Chinese head tax introduced
The Chinese Immigration Act introduced a fifty-dollar head tax, an explicitly discriminatory restriction on immigration.
Not publication-ready.
- Historical place
- Canada
- Present-day context
- Canada — navigation aid, not historical jurisdiction
- Peoples named in this record
- Chinese immigrants, Federal government
- Review state
- source supported draft — source-supported draft is not independent verification
- Catalogue updated
- 2026-10-11
- French text
- Translation pending; English research text shown.
Map context
No territorial polygon or coordinate is asserted in v1. Modern location labels are orientation aids, not historical boundaries.
Source evidence
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Significant events in Asian Canadian history
Canadian Heritage · institutional history · Review: page opened
Recorded retrieval date: 2026-10-11. This date does not prove a complete document was reviewed.
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