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Definitions:

head taxes = Charges to Chinese immigrants to Canada upon entering the country, allowing them to live and work here. The head tax was in effect until 1947.

   1Lynne Bowen, Boss Whistle: The Coal Miners of Vancouver Island Remember (Lantzville BC: Oolichan Books, 1982) 135-36.

   2Bowen 135-36.

   3Bowen 137-38.

   4 Bowen 138.
   
   5Bowen 70-73.

   6Harry Con, Ronald J. Con, Graham Johnson, Edgar Wickberg, and William E.

   7Willmott, From China to Canada: A History of the Chinese Communities in Canada (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1982) 81.

   8Bowen 69-71.

   9Bowen 71-72.

   10Terry Reksten, The Dunsmuir Saga (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1991) 86-89.

   11Bowen 143.

   12J. Kavanagh, The Vancouver Island Strike (n.p., [1913?]) 4.

   13Bowen 140.

   14British Columbia, Report of the Minister of Mines, 1914 (n.p., 1915) 21.

   15Bowen 146-47.

   16Bowen 148.

   17Bowen 140.

   18Bowen 148-52.

   19Bowen 152-74.

   20Bowen 158-74.

   21Bowen 158-74.

   22Bowen 175-88.

   23Susan Mayse, Ginger: The Life and Death of Albert Goodwin (Madeira Park BC: Harbour, 1990) 78.

   24Bowen 198.

   25Mayse 67.

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