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Immigrants from China
Search this online version of the General Registers of Chinese Immigration, which contain the head tax records for Chinese immigrants to Canada from 1885 to 1949. Search by person’s name, arrival date, or certificate number to find information and images from the original registers.
Photograph of group of men at campsite with laundry hanging to dry

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Workers’ camp for Canadian Pacific Railway, Kamloops, B.C. (1886)

Certificate with photograph of adult male affixed to bottom right-hand corner

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Head tax certificate for Tam Yee Yee, to replace lost original, 1913

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