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Saltwater: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver Hardcover - 1989

by Yee, Paul

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  • Hardcover

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Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1989. 174pp., 200 b/w photos, decorated eps. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. From the blurb, 'Canada's first Chinese arrived in British Columbia in 1858 from California. They came in search of gold and better fortune, escapaing the rebellions, flood and drought of their homeland. By 1863 more than 4,000 lived in BC, filling jobs shunned by whites. Between 1881 and 1885 17,000 more arrived, most to work on the transcontinental railway. They were to create, in Vancouver, Canada's largest and most dynamic community, known to its original inhabitants as Saltwater City. Now Vancouver's Chinese community totals more than 150,000 people [in the 1980s], enjoys considerable political and financial influence and has become one of Canada's most successful ethnic enclaves'.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to.
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  • Title Saltwater: An Illustrated History of the Chinese in Vancouver
  • Author Yee, Paul
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 174
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver
  • Date 1989
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 017222
  • ISBN 9780295967011 / 0295967013
  • Weight 2 lbs (0.91 kg)
  • Ages 22 to UP years
  • Grade levels 17 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Vancouver (B.C.) - History, Chinese - British Columbia - Vancouver -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 88020717
  • Dewey Decimal Code 971.133

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