Head Tax Certificate of Wong Sun Yee

Head Tax Certificate of Wong Sun Yee

Chinese Canadians; Immigration; Chinese head tax; Government records; Immigration documents; Discriminatory laws--Canada: Race Discrimination

Digitized head tax certificate issued to Wong Sun Yee by the Canadian Department of Immigration and Colonization on February 13, 1924. Although it appears to be a routine administrative record, the certificate was part of a discriminatory documentation system used to regulate and restrict Chinese migration in Canada. In this exhibit, the certificate is presented as evidence of how exclusion was enforced through paperwork rather than as a neutral bureaucratic artifact.

Canada. Department of Immigration and Colonization

UBC Library Open Collections, Chinese Canadian Stories

UBC Library Open Collections

1924-02-13

UBC Library Open Collections

Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Chinese Canadian Military Museum. http://www.ccmms.ca

Created under the Chinese Immigration Act, 1923. Interpreted in relation to Vancouver Public Library's "Chinese Immigration Certificates and Forms" research guide.

Digitized certificate

English

Text

https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0367302

Canada--1924