1. Head Tax
The Chinese head tax was a fixed fee charged to each Chinese person entering Canada. The head tax was first levied after the Canadian parliament passed the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885 and was meant to discourage Chinese people from entering Canada after the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The tax was abolished by the Chinese Immigration Act of 1923, which stopped all Chinese immigration except for business people, clergy, educators, students, and other categories.
Responding to anti-immigration sentiment in British Columbia, the federal parliament passed in 1885 the Chinese Immigration Act, which stipulated that all Chinese entering Canada must first pay a $50 fee, later referred to as a head tax, with the fee increasing to its maximum of $500 in 1903.
Not only did the Crown in Right of Canada collect about 33 million ($318 million in 2015 dollars) in face value from about 81,000 head tax payers, but the tax system also had the effect of constraining Chinese immigration; it discouraged Chinese women and children from joining their men, so the Chinese community in Canada became a "bachelor society".
discourage Chinese people from entering Canada after the completion of the CPR
$50 fee increasing to its maximum of $500 in 1903
Gov’t collect about $33 million

2. Vancouver Race Riot 1907
The Vancouver Anti-Oriental Riots occurred the weekend of September 7 of 1907, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The Vancouver race riot was only the second act of anti-Oriental violence in the history of Vancouver; the first incident took place in the area of Coal Harbour, in 1887.
In the early years of the twentieth century race relations on the Pacific Coast of Canada were strained. There were some sixteen thousand Chinese in the province; in a city of one hundred thousand people or around 8% of the population. There were also 8000 Japanese and around 5000 South Asian enclaves. The Chinese had come to Canada to build the railways; the Japanese to fish; and Indians to farm and log.
At this time, other ships with more migrants were turning up-- the Suian Maru [300 Japanese], SS Kumeric [1177 Japanese] and the SS Monteagle [901 Indians, further 100 in 1908]. Meanwhile, the Panic of 1907, caused by the failure of Augustus Heinze's brother's bank in New York. exacerbated the labour market and brought racial tensions to the fore. White people perceived Asians as taking "their" jobs. Australia had enacted "White Australia" legislation in 1899 to eliminate Asian immigration. The Asian Exclusion League in Canada lobbied for Canada to do the same.
A riot by East Indian lumber workers in Bellingham in 1907 started the events. Soon tensions flared north and angry mobs stormed through Powell Street in Vancouver's China town breaking windows and assaulting Chinese in the streets. The riot lasted 3 days in September 1907, finally the Vancouver police closed the streets and calm slowly returned. Many windows were broken and the population terrified. The second day of the riot turned against the Japanese community. There were similar actions in Steveston in Richmond against the Japanese.
White people perceived Asians as taking "their" jobs
Asian Exclusion League wanted no further Asian immigrants
Riot lasted 3 full days in downtown Vancouver as Canadians destroyed Chinese and Japanese businesses

3. Komagata Maru
The Canadian government’s first attempt to restrict immigration from India was to pass an order-in-council on January 8, 1908, that prohibited immigration of persons who "in the opinion of the Minister of the Interior" did not "come from the country of their birth or citizenship by a continuous journey and or through tickets purchased before leaving their country of their birth or nationality." In practice this applied only to ships that began their voyage in India, as the great distance usually necessitated a stopover in Japan or Hawaii. These regulations came at a time when Canada was accepting massive numbers of immigrants (over 400,000 in 1913 alone – a figure that remains unsurpassed to this day), almost all of whom came from Europe.
The Komagata Maru incident involved a Japanese steamship, Komagata Maru, that sailed from Hong Kong, Shanghai, China to Yokohama, Japan and then to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in 1914, carrying 376 passengers from Punjab, British India. Of them 24 were admitted to Canada, but the 352 other passengers were not allowed to land in Canada, and the ship was forced to return to India. The passengers consisted of 340 Sikhs, 24 Muslims, and 12 Hindus, all British subjects. This was one of several incidents in the history of early 20th century involving exclusion laws in both Canada and the United States designed to keep out immigrants of only Asian origin.
“Continuous Journey Act” – prevent immigration from India
1914 – ship sailed from Hong Kong to Japan, then to Canada
376 passengers were from India and forced to return

5. Residential Schools
In the 19th and 20th century, the Canadian federal government's Indian Affairs department officially encouraged the growth of the Indian residential school system as a valuable agent in a wider policy of integrating Native Canadians with the European-Canadian society, so as to avoid racial segregation. A key goal of the system, which often separated children from their families and communities, has been described as cultural genocide or "killing the Indian in the child" or, conversely, integration of the Canadian nations.
Specific laws also linked the apparatus of the residential schools to the compulsory sterilization of students in 1928 in Alberta and in 1933 in British Columbia. Although some academic articles currently offer rough estimates of the numbers of sterilizations the review of archival documents that would produce more specific numbers is incomplete and ongoing.
In February 2013, research by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission revealed that at least 3,000 students had died, mostly from disease. In 2011, reflecting on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's research, Justice Murray Sinclair told the Toronto Star: "Missing children — that is the big surprise for me, [...] That such large numbers of children died at the schools. That the information of their deaths was not communicated back to their families.“ In a legal report, the Canadian Bar Association concludes that "Student deaths were not uncommon.
The system was designed as an immersion program: in many schools, children were prohibited from (and sometimes punished for) speaking their own languages or practising their own faiths. In the 20th century, former students of the schools have claimed that officials and teachers had practised cultural genocide and ethnocide. Because of the relatively isolated nature of the schools, there was an elevated rate of physical and sexual abuse. Corporal punishment was often justified by a belief that it was the only way to "save souls", "civilize" the savage, or punish runaways who, if they became injured or died in their efforts to return home, would leave the school legally responsible for whatever befell them. Overcrowding, poor sanitation, inadequate heating, and a lack of medical care led to high rates of influenza and tuberculosis; in one school, death rates reached 69%

6. Residential Schools “What I Know”
After leaving Residential School, many children suffered from mental illness
Children were beaten and sexually abused in Residential Schools
Students in Residential Schools were not allowed to speak their own languages
Students’ belongings were taken from them when they arrived at Residential School
Residential Schools “What I Know”
Children were beaten and abused by the nuns and fathers that ran the Residential Schools
Students had their hair cut short
The government wanted to “kill the Indian in the child”
Many boys and girls attempted to run away and some died
Alcoholism resulted from the abuse in Residential Schools
Students had their clothing stripped and wore “white” clothing
Students were given “white” names
Children were taken from their families
The Residential School system was run by the Church

7. Wab Kinew
Wabanakwut (Wab) Kinew is a Canadian hip hop musician, public speaker, broadcaster, and university administrator, best known as a host of programming on CBC Radio and CBC Television