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Chinese Head Tax Redress Haunted by history, Chinese seek redress for historical ill treatment by Ottawa. Between 1885 and 1923, some 81,000 Chinese immigrants paid $23 million (about $1.2 billion in today's dollars) in head taxes to Canada. When the head tax didn’t slow immigration to the desired level, the Canadian government passed the Chinese Exclusion Act on July 1, 1923, legislating a near-total ban on Chinese immigration. Families of labourers working in Canada were stopped from entering th