Despite their diligence and immense contributions to the most important social infrastructures in Canada for it to advance its industrialization, Asians were not viewed favorably.
Even worse, they were viewed as primitives, as savages, and as the Yellow Perils that impose great threats to the Western society, while all they wanted to do is to live peacefully in a foreign land, away from the brutal invasion and colonization from the West and the ruthless control of their local governments.
Such a fear quickly escalated into an event that many would consider as hate crimes in the present day - the infamous 1907 Anti-Asian Riot. On September 7, 1907, in Vancouver, thousands stormed the Chinatown, ravaging businesses and homes owned by East Asian Canadians. The destruction lasted for two days.