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Year

1923

Text

Tsur Chi-lien erklärt :
1. Guarantees of rights, livelihood, and property of the citizens of each country who resided in the other country.
2. Abolition of the head tax.
3. Abolition of all special entry facilities for Chinese coming to Canada.
4. Right of all Chinese ministers of religion, students, and merchants to have unrestricted entry into Canada.
5. Chinese could be able to bring their families to Canada.
6. The two goernments to agree on an annual quota for appropriate classes of immigrants.
7. Chinese children to study in classrooms with whites.
8. Chinese admitted under the quota to be established to be free to work in any government or corporate enterprise.
9. Abolition of existing facilities for special medical examinations when nationals of either country enter the other country.
10. Chinese born in Canada, have the rights of other foreigners in the province where they are born, also to have the vote.
11. Import duties on Chinese goods to be the same as those on goods from other countries.
12. Chinese boats carrying Chinese goods and Chinese merchants to reveive “most-favoured” treatment in Canadian ports.

Mentioned People (1)

Tsur, Chi-lien  (Ningbo, Zhejiang 1877-) : Diplomat

Subjects

History : China - Canada

Documents (1)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1982 From China to Canada : a history of the Chinese communities in Canada. Ed. by Edgar Wickberg. (Toronto, Ont. : McClelland and Stewart ; Department of the Secretary of State and the Canadian Government Publ. Centre, 1982). (Generations, a history of Canada's peoples). S. 141. Publication / Wic6