During the time period of 1867 to 1945 the immigrant experience in Canada was different from today. There were many groups such as the Chinese and Jews that were no accepted by the Canadian people by 1945 the rules had changed and there was acceptance towards immigrants.
In 1900 there were only 23,000 Chinese people in Canada today there are 1,487,000 which makes up for 3.9% of the Canadian population. This was because before 1923 Chinese immigrants were not welcome in Canada for a Chinese Immigrant to live in Canada they would need to pay a fifty dollar head tax. In 1900 the head tax was raised to five hundred dollars. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was the reason for the head tax and the rules about Chinese immigrants. This act was signed
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Some of the main reason that the Jews were having a hard time in Canada was because at that time 98% of Canadians were Christian. Today there are 375,000 Jews in Canada. From 1900 to 1920 138,000 Jews came to Canada from Russia and Eastern Europe the came because they were being persecuted by the czarist government of Russia. The Jews were not always not welcomed before 1930 but they were able helped the Canadian agriculture along. In the 1930 the great depression hit Canada the unemployment rate went up wages were very low. A particularly important factor in the plight of Jewish refugees was the widespread presence of Anti-Semitism in Canada4 .Thus, even when Jews would have had the means to support themselves in Canada, they were often refused entry.5. After Kristallnacht the Canadian Jewish Congress sponsored 10,000 Jews but the Canadian government turned them down. The Jews became very unpopular in Canada there was a lot of Anti-Semitism. The Jewish community in Canada had no power or say in what the government did or couldn’t do. The Jewish community The Jews much like the Chinese were not accepted and had to work hard jobs for lower wages then other races or religions. The Jewish were treated a lot like the Chinese by the Canadians and the