comunities in Canada
the residents of this community paid taxes to the city halifax but were not provided services such as water treatment plants and properly paved roads.
in 1964, the government of halifax decided to pursue plans for urban renewal. houses and other buildings were marked for demolition and eventually torn down. people were forced to leave their homes and community.
the common schools act was used to make segregated schools.
for the jobs they were allowed to take, they suffered harsher treatment, lower pay, tougher working conditions, and more dangerousejobs then thier non-chinese counterparts. professional careers like medicine, finance, and law were closed to them.
the federal government contributed to anti-chinese racism with the chinese head tax and the chinese exclusion act.
it was illegal to hire the chinese for public works projects, government jobs, and contracts paid by taxpayer funds.
in the late 1800s, undesirable businesses were allowed to be located in close proximity to Africville.
ontario closed the last segregated public school in 1965. Canada's final segregated school stayed open until 1983.
these separate schools happned in places like Chatham, ontario, where there were fewer abolitionist supporters