The Archive · 1928

Canada and Asiatic Immigration

Resolution Passed by British Columbia Legislature Victoria, B.C., Mar. 1, In the course of a discussion in the Legislative Assembly to-day on a resolution urging abrogation of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty as far ax it related to the right of provineial governments to enact anti= Oriental legislation and requesting: the Federal Government to grant any further naturaliz to Orientals, Mr. Manson provincial Attorney-General and Minister of Labour, suggested that all the members of the Assembly should unite in preparing a resolu tion pointing out to the Federal Government the seriousness of the Oriental immigration question, The said, was a disastrous inter-mixture of races through inter-marrying. The situation must be met promptly—Reuter,

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