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In 1936, Vancouver, British Columbia’s Chinese community celebrated the city’s Golden Jubilee by constructing an elaborate carnival village between Pender and Carrall Streets. The community erected a bamboo gate and invited tourists and non-Chinese visitors to enjoy the Chinese cultural activities on display, including a pagoda featuring the work of 20 artists and artisans, a temple housing Chinese ceremonial objects, and colourful parades. The celebration was an important milestone in the evolving relations between Chinese Canadians and the broader Vancouver community during the Exclusion Period (1923-1947).
Oriental Canadians: Outcasts or Citizens? is a pamphlet addressing the causes and circumstances of racial discrimination against Chinese, Japanese, and Indian Canadians. It's co-author, socialist politician Angus MacInnis, was a Member of Parliament and was a founding member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). In the pamphlet, he and wife Grace MacInnis call for more just treatment of Chinese Canadians (however conform to the then-popular sentiment that Japanese internment was necessary). Throughout the 1930s, the CCF were criticized for their campaigns to give 'Oriental Canadians' the right to vote in provinces where they were barred from registering on the voter's list.
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