Canada as a nation has welcomed immigrants from around the world and in many ways has become a pillar of diversity and acceptance for those who have fled persecution and injustice. Even so, Canadians have learned that the present day policy of multiculturalism is in stark contrast to the restrictive policies implemented on many groups of migrants during both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Two such groups of migrants who arrived in Canada in great numbers during different centuries, sharing unembellished similarities regarding the discrimination they experienced and their need to establish separate and distinctive communities were the Japanese and Chinese