Name: Jolie Leung
Grade: 7
City: Richmond
Project Title: The Chinese Immigration Act 1923
Jolie’s topic is about the
experience of the immigrants and is still important
in today’s world because there are a lot of Chinese people in Vancouver and
that history shapes the future of us. Jolie’s project has definitely inspired
her to learn more about this topic and see what happened.
Her topic told her
about the life of the immigrants and how hard it was. People forbid the Chinese
to enter Canada, expect people who got scholars…etc. It was a law made by the
government in 1923. The government thought Chinese were corrupt and dirty and
how they were pests.
The greatest challenge throughout making the project was
doing the interviews. She spoke to the head activist, Sid Chow-Tan who was one
of the relatives of the Chinese. She
also spoke to Professor Henry Yu, whose family was in Canada, while he and his
mother were in China. It was hard finding the people to interview.
One thing
Jolie would is that she would change some of the posters she used in some of
her projects and turn them into her own posters. Also, she would like to change
her creative component into a drawing instead of a poem. Jolie was surprised
when the white people got some people from China to build the Canadian Pacific
Railroad and once they were done, they sent the Chinese people back to China.
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