It is unclear what became of them : 312 but likely that some returned to China while others were put to work in a nearby mine : 196 and later brought to Mexico. The next year, Meares had another 70 Chinese craftsmen brought from Canton but, shortly after arrival of this second group, the settlement was seized by the Spanish in what became known as the Nootka Crisis, with the Chinese being imprisoned by the Spanish in the course of their seizure of Meares' property, which brought Britain and Spain to the brink of global war. John Meares, Voyages Made in the Years 17, from China to the North West Coast of America : 2 If hereafter trading posts should be established on the American coast, a colony of these men would be a very valuable acquisition.
The Chinese were, on this occasion, shipped as an experiment: they have generally been esteemed an hardy, and industrious, as well as ingenious race of people they live on fish and rice, and, requiring but low wages, it was a matter also of œconomical consideration to employ them and during the whole of the voyage there was every reason to be satisfied with their services. Regarding this journey and the future prospects of Chinese settlement in colonial North America, Meares wrote: At Nootka Sound, the Chinese workers built a dockyard, a fort and a sailing ship, the North-West America. : 312 The British fur trader John Meares recruited an initial group of about 50 sailors and artisans from Canton ( Guangzhou) and Macao. Some 120 Chinese contract labourers arrived at Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island. While the legend of the mythical country of Fusang is sometimes claimed to refer to Chinese monks in British Columbia in the 6th Century AD, it wasn't until the late 1780s that the first confirmed record was made of Chinese arrivals in BC. The launch of the North-West America at Nootka Sound, 1788 Following this, many Chinese began to move eastward, establishing Chinatowns in several of the larger Canadian cities. In the 1880s, Chinese labour was contracted to build the Canadian Pacific Railway. During the gold rush, settlements of Chinese grew in Victoria and New Westminster and the "capital of the Cariboo" Barkerville and numerous other towns, as well as throughout the colony's interior, where many communities were dominantly Chinese. Large-scale immigration of Chinese began seventy years later with the advent of the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush of 1858. Some 30–40 men were employed as shipwrights at Nootka Sound in what is now British Columbia, to build the first European-type vessel in the Pacific Northwest, named the North West America. The history of Chinese Canadians in British Columbia began with the first recorded visit by Chinese people to North America in 1788. Irreligious, Chinese folk religions, Buddhism, Christianity, Taoism Richmond, Burnaby, Vancouver, Victoria, Surrey, Coquitlam, Shaughnessy, DeltaĮnglish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Min Chinese, Hokkien Chinese Canadians in British Columbia Total populationġ1% of the population of British Columbia (2021)
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