Not sure who’s school taught this or didn’t... - Todays Baasu HISTORY- The 1907 Asiatic Exclusion League is formed - A 1921 membership card to the Asiatic Exclusion League of B.C. Artifacts from the racist organization are rare — this card turned up in a book that was sold to Macleod's Books in Vancouver in 2014. - Anti-Asian hysteria was rampant on the west coast of North America in the early 1900s. In San Francisco, whites formed the Japanese and Korean Exclusion League in 1905. Two years later, a Canadian version appeared in Vancouver, the Asiatic Exclusion League. As an engineer and a former Vancouver mayor, Garden was a member of the elite. But many workers and trade unionists were also opposed to Asian immigration because they feared they would accept lower wages, and take jobs from white workers. The first public meeting of the Asiatic Exclusion league was held on Aug. 12 at the Labour Hall at Homer and Dunsmuir. Vancouver’s MP, Robert George Macpherson, warned of “an invasion of Asiatics who are swarming into our country every month.” The anti-Asian mood was stoked by the Vancouver World, which was usually politically liberal — but openly racist when it came to Asian immigration. In an editorial, it described itself as “the one daily paper in Vancouver which has consistently set its face against the Orientals.” - More source: Vancouver Sun