How Did Japanese Immigrants Come To Canada

Japanese Canadians Who are the Japanese Immigrants? Where are they from? This report will tell you all about the Japanese immigrants and their lifestyle. Let’s start by talking about where they originally came from. The Japanese Canadians are from Japan. They all came from different cities/areas in Japan. The first group of Japanese immigrants came between 1877 and 1900. The first group of Japanese immigrants that came were all men. Their wives and children stayed back in Japan. Since they were from Japan most of them only spoke Japanese and they continued to speak in Canada. The Japanese immigrants came to Canada because their villages in japan were crowded and there were not many good paying jobs. So, they thought it would be a good idea to come to Canada, find a job, earn money and send it back to their family in Japan. The Japanese got to Canada by ship. The conditions of the ship were not so good. There …show more content…
They worked as fishermen, lumbermen and they did logging as well as mining. Some Japanese immigrants were well educated and wealthy. Some even started their own business. By 1901 there were about 5000 Japanese immigrants. Then, between 1905 and 1907 the population of Japanese immigrants in Canada grew and there were about 18,000 Japanese immigrants living in Canada. When the Japanese immigrants got their job they worked very hard but still got paid a very little amount of money. Their working conditions were not the best. They did not have any luxuries like we have today. Such as, chairs to sit in and tables to put your stuff on. Some of the jobs that the Japanese immigrants did were very dangerous. At that time a lot of racism and unfairness was going on. Even when it came to jobs. Japanese workers would get paid one third of what whites would get paid. They used that money to buy gear and do deadly jobs that the whites refused to