Chinese Immigrants: Dark Period

Jin Dept: Like Canada, pre-confederation Newfoundland forced Chinese men to pay a $300 head tax, often just for the privilege of doing sweat labour in laundries to support their families back home. For men like Frank Jin, that $300 was equivalent to two years' salary, according to CBC. "It wasn't something that he really liked to speak about." St. John's will soon have a monument to remember 334 Chinese immigrants who were forced to pay a head tax to live and work in the Dominion of Newfoundland. "It was a dark period in his life," son Gordon Jin told News. As reported in the news.
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