Vancouver History WWI to 1920's

The building of the Panama Canal, which was completed in 1914, meant easier access to markets in Europe and along North America's east coast. This brought about a boom for the BC economy and for its main trade center, Vancouver. Big business grew and so did big unions. Whereas the parties clashed over pay rates and working conditions, they came together in opposing the growing population of non-white workers. In 1915, a fishing sandbar used by the Squamish becomes Granville Island, built up with silt dredged from False Creek. The Chinese and Japanese settlers were hard-working people seeking opportunity, just like the Europeans also flooding the province, but this didn't seem to matter to the white folks. On several occasions, Vancouver's Chinatown and Little Tokyo were the scene of white mob violence, and in the 1920s BC passed legislation effectively closing its borders to non-white immigration.

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