Alberta Heritage Alphabet

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Chinese, Settlement

Many Chinese people came to Canada during the 1880s to build the British Columbia sections of the Canadian Pacific Railway. After the railway was finished a number of them moved to what is now Alberta. They set up businesses like laundries and restaurants.

Railway