Righting Canada’s Wrongs: The Chinese Head Tax and Anti-Chinese Immigration Policies in the Twentieth Century

This resource will help students understand the Chinese Head Tax and Canada’s anti-immigration policies in the early twentieth century. It balances narrative text, interviews and quotations, and images of primary sources, and has links to online videos that support the ideas in the book. Suitable for students in grades 4-9, the resource could be used to explore human rights, redress and righting Canada’s wrongs, Chinese culture in Canada and China, struggles Chinese-Canadians have had to overcome, and historical policies and their impact. It provides teachers with one place to gather information about the head tax and the political and social context in which it occurred.