Navigating Transpacific Passages
Steamship Companies, State Regulators, and Transshipment of Japanese in the Early-Twentieth-Century Pacific Northwest
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| ID | 11699261 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Yukari Takai (0000-0003-4273-4929, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2011 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 07-34 |
| Data de publicação | 2011-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Journal of American Ethnic History (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0278-5927 • E-ISSN: 1936-4695 |
| Editora | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5406/jamerethnhist.30.3.0007 |
| OpenAlex | W2317523052 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 4 |
| Referências citadas | 3 |
ON THE MORNING OF July 25, 1907, 1,177 Japanese on board the steamship Kumeric, owned by the British firm Andrew Weir & Co., an affiliate of U.S.-based company Dodwell & Company, arrived at Vancouver, British Columbia, from Honolulu. These persons constituted the largest number of Japanese immigrants from Hawai‘i that had yet to be brought to this port. Having been inspected at the William Head quarantine station near Victoria, British Columbia, the night before and again by Canadian immigration officials in Vancouver the day after their arrival, all passengers landed at Vancouver. Partly because their number far exceeded the capacity of Vancouver’s boardinghouses, eight hundred among them were reported to have moved on along the Frazer River to be camped at Steveston. On July 30, John H. Sargent, the inspector in charge of the U.S. Immigration Service in Seattle, received a telegram from the Bureau of Immigration in Washington, DC. The cable alerted the Bureau’s Seattle office to the Kumeric’s landing just a few days previously and authorized the Seattle inspector to spend the necessary funds to guard the border at Steveston, British Columbia, and Point Roberts, Washington state, an enclave of the United States located on the southern tip of the Tsawwassen Peninsula, which is part of British Columbia. Arrivals of tens of thousands of Japanese transmigrants who landed in British Columbia via Hawai‘i or directly from Japan ignited a series of
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| Citações por ano | 0,4 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
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| Altamente citado | Não |
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