Japanese Settlement in Western Canada
The Japanese are rapidly getting control of the fisheries of British Columbia. A conservative English authority states that over ten thousand Japanese fishermen are deriving from this source annually incomes varying from $500 to $3,000 each. There are said to be more Japanese adult males than white men in the island of Vancouver. The Japanese are swarming over the Loyalty Islands also, and are said to have a prospective eye on the Australian commonwealth. They are in large numbers on the Queen Charlotte Islands, off the Canadian Pacific coast, and are settling by thousands in various parts of the Western Canadian peninsula provinces. The aggressiveness of these Japanese settlers is causing some uneasiness in British circles, and it is believed that Great Britain will soon have a problem on her hands that is very similar to the Japanese problem in the United States. The human race is a long way from having advanced beyond racial problems. These are with us in all parts of the world; and with multitudes of conditions of this character staring us in the face, how can men have the Utopian ideas that the world is just about converted, and that we are standing on the border lands of the millennium?