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Patricia E. Roy is the winner of the 2013 Lifetime Achievement
Award, Canadian Historical Association. Patricia Roy's latest book,
The Oriental Question, continues her study into why British
Columbians - and many Canadians from outside the province - were
historically so opposed to Asian immigration. Drawing on
contemporary press and government reports and individual
correspondence and memoirs, Roy shows how British Columbians
consolidated a "white man's province" from 1914 to 1941 by securing
a virtual end to Asian immigration and placing stringent legal
restrictions on Asian competition in the major industries of lumber
and fishing. While its emphasis is on political action and
politicians, the book also examines the popular pressure for such
practices and gives some attention to the reactions of those most
affected: the province's Chinese and Japanese residents. It is a
critical investigation of a troubling period in Canadian history.
Patricia E. Roy is the winner of the 2013 LifetimeAchievement
Award, Canadian Historical Association. Canada’s early
participation in the Asia-Pacific region washindered by
“contradictory impulses” shaping its approach.For over half a
century, racist restrictions curtailed immigration fromJapan, even
as Canadians manoeuvred for access to the fabled wealth ofthe
Orient. Canada’s relations with Japan have changed
profoundlysince then. In Contradictory Impulses, leading scholars
drawupon the most recent archival research to examine an
importantbilateral relationship that has matured in fits and starts
over thepast century. As they makes clear, the two countries’
political,economic, and diplomatic interests are now more closely
aligned thanever before and wrapped up in a web of reinforcing
cultural and socialties. Contradictory Impulses is a comprehensive
study of thesocial, political, and economic interactions between
Canada and Japanfrom the late nineteenth century until today.
Patricia E. Roy is the winner of the 2013 Lifetime Achievement
Award, Canadian Historical Association. Patricia E. Roy examines
the climax of antipathy to Asians in Canada: the removal of all
Japanese Canadians from the BC coast in 1942. Canada ignored the
rights of Japanese Canadians and placed strict limits on Chinese
immigration. In response, Japanese Canadians and their supporters
in the human rights movement managed to halt "repatriation" to
Japan, and Chinese Canadians successfully lobbied for the same
rights as other Canadians to sponsor immigrants. The final triumph
of citizenship came in 1967, when immigration regulations were
overhauled and the last remnants of discrimination removed.
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