{"id":6052,"date":"2019-03-16T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T18:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca:\/?p=6052"},"modified":"2022-08-31T08:20:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T02:20:31","slug":"6020-2-2-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/?p=6052","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Immigration Act, C.I. 5 Certificate #88549"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/wp-content\/gallery\/photoessay2013\/photoessay5.jpg?i=1373076421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6053 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/chinese-archives-head-tax-certificate-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/chinese-archives-head-tax-certificate-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/chinese-archives-head-tax-certificate-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/chinese-archives-head-tax-certificate.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Head tax certificates were required for all Chinese immigrants as proof of their payment for entry into Canada.&nbsp; Officially called C.I. 5 certificates, &#8220;C.I.&#8221; an abbreviation for Chinese Immigration, these were issued by the federal authorities to show the amount of the head tax and the port and date of arrival.&nbsp; An official stamp was required on the certificate for those who wished to return to Canada following a visit to China.&nbsp; Because copies were not kept by the government, the certificates were all the more carefully guarded from damage and loss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Excerpted from The Chinese in Toronto from 1878: From Outside to Inside the Circle by Arlene Chan, published by Dundurn Press. Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Arlene Chan<\/p>\n<p>Image Credit: Mavis Chu Lew Garland Collection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Head tax certificates were required for all Chinese immigrants as proof of their payment for entry into Canada.&nbsp; Officially called C.I. 5 certificates, &#8220;C.I.&#8221; an abbreviation for Chinese Immigration, these were issued by the federal authorities to show the amount of the head tax and the port and date of arrival.&nbsp; An official stamp was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog-post","7":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6052"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7609,"href":"https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6052\/revisions\/7609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanlumbfoundation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}