Asian minorities in Canada, focusing on Chinese and Japanese people

grantor: University of TorontoCanada consists of immigrants from all over the world--and it creates diverse cultures in one society. Among them, Asian immigrants from China and Japan have especially experienced many difficulties in the early period. However, they overcame those obstacles and are now spend their lives in the new land. How Chinese and Japanese minorities created their lives from the early period to present interests me because I am also a member of a minority, as a Korean resident in Japan. Also, I would like to examine how the policy of multiculturalism has contributed to the lives of those minorities in Canada. This thesis looks at the period of the early immigrants from China and Japan before World War II, and how they have created a new life in a new land far from their home countries. I also look briefly at the history of multiculturalism and how multiculturalism functions in Canada.M.A