The Chinese Immigration Act of 1885

The Chinese immigrants  had to pay a fee of $50 tax to move to Canada and by 1903 they would have to pay $500 to enter. It is unjust because it is discriminating the minority of Chinese immigrants and it would be very hard to pay it considering the fact that they only earned less than $1.00 a day. It went against the charter of rights and freedoms by not giving them equal rights to others. I don't think it would happen today because it goes against the charter of rights and freedoms and people would know that is not right because they took the act off at one point so they must of knew it was not right.

(Eli) Chinese Immigration Act of 1885

  The Chinese immigration Act of 1885 was the Canadian act where all Chinese immigrants had to pay $50 to come in to Canada, no one else had to pay the fee. In 1900 the fee was raised all the way to $100, this was very difficult to pay because most of the immigrants only earned $1 per day. In 1903 the fee was raised yet again all the way to $500. An average Chinese immigrant made that amount of money in 2 years. In a couple years the law changed yet again this time it wasn’t about how much they had to pay. The law was changed so that for every 50.8 tonnes of cargo only 1 Chinese immigrant could come, so if the boat was carrying 508 tonnes you could only have 10 Chinese immigrants. By 1923 they changed it so much that they completely didn’t allow Chinese to immigrate into Canada. This is more formally known as the Chines Exclusion Act of 1923. 

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   In 1918, a man from Quebec was not allowed to sit in a good seat in a theater because he was black. The man also tried to take this problem into court but the judges sided with the theater and said that the theater could decide who got which seat.This was unjust because people should be allowed to sit where they want in a theater regardless of their skin color and he should have acted sooner instead of waiting to take the issue to court. This goes against the equality rights part of the Canadian charter of rights and freedoms. This would not happen today because we now have all these laws in place which would help to prevent something like this from happening again. The theaters are also not as racist today as they were back then. This issue is extremely racist and would not happen today.

Jackson Giles

In Canada, we used to charge Chinese people 50 dollars just to get into Canada well other foreigners from different countries paid nothing to enter Canada. Later the Chinese had to pay 500 dollars when most people only made 1 dollar a day. This was unjust because the Chinese did nothing to gain this amount of disrespect from Canada . Yes this did break one of the rights because you can't treat someone this way just by their looks and were they are from. I don't really think that this would happen today because something this big would not have slipped by the public so easy.

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in 1918 a Quebec man was not allowed to sit in a good seat at a play because it was considered the "good" area just because he was black.  the man tried to take it to court but the court decided that it was the theaters seats so they could choose who could sit there.

this is not fair because people should not be judged or made fun of just because they have a different skin  couler. just because they look different doesn't mean that your any worse or better than any one  else and we are all different and unique in our own different way.

I think that it was against the the charter rights and freedoms because they were not letting that man have any thing good or have any good things just because he is black.

I don't think that it would happen to day because people don't think that just because they have a different skin couler and most people think that just because there skin couler is different dosent mean that there any different

Chinese immagration act of 1885

Chinese Immigration act of 1885

By: Julia Zahorouski

  The Chinese Immigration act of 1885 placed a head tax on all Chinese immigrants coming to Canada, forcing them to pay a 50 dollar fee to enter the country. In 1900 the fee was raised to 100 dollars (Lots of money back then). In 1903 the amount was raised to 500 dollars! The equal amount of two years wages, which was a small fortune to the Chinese immigrant s as well as other Canadians at the time. Later another law was passed declaring that only 1 Chinese immigrant for every 50 tons of the ship they were travelling on for that one voyage could come over. That meant only 10 Chinese immigrants could come to Canada on a ship that weighs 500 tons! That is not fair to the families  of the immigrant that came to Canada because they would not be able to see their family again until they work and earned enough money to either bring their family over or to move back to wherever they came from.

   The Immigration act was not fair to the Charter rights and freedoms because they would not charge anyone else it was just the Chinese Immigrants coming to Canada and it was an unfair total money they had to pay it started out as 50 and in 8 years it got raised to 500 dollars even now that is quite a bit of money, imagine how much that would be back then if you compared it to now that would cost about 5000 dollars instead of 500!

The Chinese Immigration Act of 1885

The Chinese Immigration act made it that Chinese people who wanted to come to Canada had to pay a $50.00 fee to come into the country.  Later in 1900 the fee was raised to a hundred dollars. This was a lot of money back then because people didn’t have as much money as they do today. Three years after this in 1903 the fee was raised to $500.00. Later after all this another law was put in place that only one Chinese immigrant could come per very fifty tons. This meant that only ten people could come on a ship that weighed 500 ton tons and that made it very difficult to come from China to Canada. This goes against the charter because there is a right that says that everyone has the right to enter and leave Canada. This probably could happen today because there are lots of people who don't want people to come into Canada and they might raise a fee for immigrants. Later on in 1923 this law was superseded by the Chinese Immigration act of 1923.