The first comprehensive study of the anti-Asian attitudes and policies that prevailed in British Columbia.Between
 the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries white British Columbians
 directed recurring outbursts of prejudice against the Chinese, 
Japanese, and East Indians who lived among them. In White Canada Forever
 Peter Ward reveals the full extent and periodic virulence of west coast
 racism.<br><br>Ward draws upon a rich record of events and opinion in 
the provincial press, manuscript collections, and successive federal 
enquiries and royal commissions on Asian immigration. He locates the 
origins of west coast racism in the frustrated vision of a white British
 Columbia and an unshakeable belief in the unassimilability of the Asian
 immigrant. Canadian attitudes were dominated by a series of 
interlocking, hostile stereotypes derived from western perceptions of 
Asia and modified by the encounter between whites and Asians on the 
north Pacific coast. Public pressure on local, provincial, and federal 
governments led to discriminatory policies in the field of immigration 
and employment, and culminated in the forced relocation of west coast 
Japanese residents during World War II.</br></br>

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