... Chinese Exclusion Act and shut down all ordinary bachelor-man traffic between Canada and China, shut off any women from arriving, and divided families." (pg 17). In those early years Chinatown was populated with males, this reflected the process of men was brought over for labourers and the women were left behind in China. Wong Suk was unhappy with the government ... the Chinese to resent Canadian culture. Therefore, the elders, Poh Poh and Wong Suk, never gotten use to the Canadian Society, and were unable to accept the Canadian culture. Therefore Chinatown was created, a society that ...

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... finally released and didn't have to return to China. My father was waiting for us when we got off from the ferry in San Francisco. We lived in the Oakland's Chinatown from 1933-1948. It was a small enclave of four small blocks and that is where most of the Chinese lived. We finally had the chance to attend a public school. I attended ... ...

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