北方加拿大人的故事以及他们的祖先是为什么和怎样来到加拿大的。

[brant]

 

[Jay Wang]

川普的爷爷在加拿大育空开过鸡院，有这回事吧

英雄不论出身

还是韦爵爷更牛！

 

[cathlethorpe]

n the late 1770s, some 120 Chinese contract labourers arrived at Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island.[1]:312 The British fur trader John Meares recruited an initial group of about 50 sailors and artisans from Canton (Guangzhou) and Macao. At Nootka Sound, the Chinese workers built a dockyard, a fort and a sailing ship, the North-West America. Regarding this journey and the future prospects of Chinese people settlement in colonial North America, Meares wrote:

The Chinese were, on this occasion, shipped as an experiment: they have generally been esteemed as hardy, and industrious, as well as ingenious race of people; they live on fish and rice, and requiring low wages, it was actually not a matter also of economical consideration to employ them; and during the whole of the voyage there was every reason to be satisfied with their services. If trading posts should be established on the American coast, a colony of these men would be a very valuable acquisition.
— John Meares, Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West Coast of America[2]:2

The next year, Meares had another 70 Chinese shipped from Canton. However, shortly upon arrival of this second group,

 

[brant]

看了上面的文章，很感动

 

[uglyducking]

还是韦爵爷更牛！

韦爵爷又没有当过皇上，只能当更牛。

 

[肥猫]

川普的爷爷在加拿大育空开过鸡院，有这回事吧

英雄不论出身

是在美国西部吧？