ABSTRACT
By 1925, British Columbia (BC), Canada's westernmost province, had been made into a white supremacist society. In this society, an individual's ‘race’ 1 defined his or her political and civil rights and potential areas of economic activity and circumscribed such day-to-day matters as place of residence. First Nations people (North American ‘Indians’) and Asians, unlike whites, were politically disenfranchised, barred from certain occupations and free associations, confronted by legalised discrimination and subjected to random violence. 2 In short it was ‘A White Man's Province’ which defined non-white peoples as intrinsically alien.
