In 1842 the Chinese came to work the gold fields in British Columbia they worked in Fraser valley and then they went into farming, gardening, domestic service, road construction, and railway builders.
When the United States got rid of slavery they found a new way to have cheap labour the Chinese. The Chinese immigrants mainly came from the coastal provinces of Guangdong and Fujian. They came from a life of poverty, and unrest and came to a country were they had to work really hard also there was a lot of racism against them. In 1849 Chinese came to North America and settled in San Francisc…
