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Tomekichi Homma, Canadian: 6
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Tomekichi Homma, Canadian: 6

When Homma walked to the court house from his home in Chinatown, he made a point of walking through the front door to register to vote.

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The front page of the Vancouver Daily Province, Dec. 1, 1900. Homma was never interviewed.

The political climate for the challenge could hardly have been worse. Opposition to any concessions to Asian workers was at fever pitch. The debacle of the 1897 salmon season negotiations, during the previous Big Year, had ended with white, Indigenous and Japanese …

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