The Chinese Exclusion Act and other discriminatory measures had profound and lasting impacts on Chinese women and families in Canada.
This July marks a century since the Chinese Exclusion Act was introduced in Canada. On June 23, a plaque was unveiled in the Senate in Ottawa to mark the centenary.
The Chinese Exclusion Act and other discriminatory measures had profound and lasting impacts on Chinese women and family formation in Canada. Contemporary issues like accreditation systems, the preference for Canadian experience and education and a lack of affordable child care affect Chinese immigrant women and their families today.
The few who managed to enter laboured as indentured workers under contract in order to repay their head tax and travel expenses. The exorbitant tax meant many poor Chinese labourers could not afford to bring their wives and children to Canada. By 1941, there were 20,141 separated families in the Chinese community in which the husbands resided in Canada while the wives remained in the home country. In the same year, there were only 1,177 intact Chinese families in Canada where both the husbands and wives resided here.
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