Scottish nursemaid Janet Smith was the victim of a 1924 tragedy that ignited racial tension in a very young Vancouver. At the core of the issue were the mysterious circumstances surrounding Smith's death, particularly the fact that the only other adult in the house at the time was the Chinese houseboy. When Smith's death was followed by the assassination of Davie Lew, a well-known Chinese man, it only strengthened the European view that Vancouver's Asian community was a hotbed of violence and corruption.
Newspaper editors and most of Vancouver's white community raised an outcry, charging the police with incompetence and demanding arrests, while Presbyterian indignation called for law and order as well as an end to Chinese immigration. Before the summer was over, the tongs of Chinatown and the clans of Canada's West Coast were set to defend their own, and one Scottish minister went so far as to declare it a time of "holy war."
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-230) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.1/33004
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-bc
- ISBN
- 9781459329614 1894384113
- LCCN
- F1089.5.V22
- LCCN Item number
- M29 2000eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- DLC
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- 1 electronic text (238 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00604345 (OCoLC)605716372 (CaOOCEL)419747
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Table of Contents
- Contents 7
- A Note on the Cover 9
- Prologue 10
- The Clans Gather 12
- Death on a Sunny Morning 25
- Hasty Inquest 31
- Cissie Jones Cries Murder 35
- Canadian Detective Bureau Strikes 43
- Scots' Anger Grows 47
- Smith's Body Exhumed 49
- Tension Mounts at Second Inquest 52
- Prominent Chinese Man Gunned Down 80
- A Happy New Year? 94
- From the Frying Pan Into the Fire 108
- Not Exactly Democracy 114
- Improbable Plots, Twists and Turns 127
- The Kidnappers Are Caught 133
- Kidnappers in Court 140
- A Pair of Irrepressibles 147
- The Kidnappers' Plot Uncovered 151
- Summer Hiatus 154
- Clan Wars 157
- Cowper Takes the Stand 159
- Murder Charge Thrown Out 162
- Detectives on Trial 166
- Cowper in Court Again 179
- Point Grey Trio's Trial 182
- Manson Battles Political Foes 188
- The Curtain Comes Down 191
- The Unsolved Mystery 195
- Wong Forsakes the Golden Mountain 205
- The Judgments of Mr. Justice Alexander Malcolm Manson 207
- Other Major Players 212
- Janet's Resting Place 216
- Epilogue 218
- Appendices 223
- Acknowledgements 231
- Bibliography 232
- Index 234
- A 234
- B 234
- C 234
- D 235
- E 235
- F 235
- G 235
- H 235
- J 236
- K 236
- L 236
- M 236
- N 237
- O 237
- P 237
- R 237
- S 237
- T 238
- U 238
- V 238
- W 239
- Y 239
