Brief empire : Canada's first Chinese settlement
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- Author
- Chliboyko, Jim
- Date
- August-September 2001.
- Geographic Location
- British Columbia - Vancouver Island
- Material Type
- magazine article
- Abstract
- "Canada's first wave of Chinese immigrants arrived in 1858...But they weren't the first Chinese to establish themselves on British Columbia's shores. Seventy years earlier, an entrepreneurial sea captain named John Meares enticed fifty Chinese artisans to Vancouver Island to build his commercial e…
- Author
- Chliboyko, Jim
- Role
- Author
- Date
- August-September 2001.
- Person
- Meares, John
- Geographic Location
- British Columbia - Vancouver Island
- Material Type
- magazine article
- Physical Description
- illustrations
- portraits
- Source Title
- Beaver
- Volume
- 71
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 23-26
- Abstract
- "Canada's first wave of Chinese immigrants arrived in 1858...But they weren't the first Chinese to establish themselves on British Columbia's shores. Seventy years earlier, an entrepreneurial sea captain named John Meares enticed fifty Chinese artisans to Vancouver Island to build his commercial empire."