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VICTORIA - The first day of school in Victoria one hundred years ago marked the start of a student strike over segregation that helped Chinese-Canadians solidify their place in a country that was not always welcoming, say historians and cultural experts.
The first day of school in Victoria one hundred years ago marked the start of a student strike over segregation that helped Chinese-Canadians solidify their place in a country that was not always welcoming, say historians and cultural experts.
The boycott, which lasted a year, was a protest against plans to expand segregation of Chinese Canadian students in the public school system.
A hundred years ago, Chinese students in Victoria began a boycott of classes for a year to protest efforts to expand segregation of Chinese students to the end of Grade 7
The Greater Victoria School Board has issued an apology to Chinese Canadians some 100 years after the school board decided to segregate young Chinese students in the public school system.