Head Tax databases - Canada

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The database of matched villages and towns in Taishan and Zhongshan completed by the Asian Library is linked here. The mapping of geographic names recorded in the head tax database was launched in fall, 2008. It took 20 rounds of community-based meetings with Taishanese / Zhongshanese-speaking participants to match the locale-of-origin reported by 90% of immigrants from these two counties. Part of the findings can be found in "Where Did the Immigrants Actually Come From?" exhibit.

burton.library.ubc.ca/hclmbc/Documents/ZhongshanTaishan_exhibit_finalscreen.pdf


Rudy Chiang, a community researcher took up the mapping of Xinhui (Sun Woy) after attending the Asian Library’s “Workshop on the Taishan and Zhongshan Immigrants in North America” in May 2010. He had worked on about 50% of the list. Check out Rudy's database here and powerpoint presentation here.

For more information regarding this project, please refer to its brochure.


burton.library.ubc.ca/hclmbc/introduction.html