Indo-Canadians and Wayne Hammil

Wayne Hammil: Early immigrants to B.C. faced not only the hardship of settling into a new home, but also seemingly racist policies Chinese and Indo-Canadians did not have the right to own property and only got the right to vote in 1947. , according to CBC. Realtor Wayne Hammil recently spotted a covenant in a land title dating back to 1928 when he was putting a Vancouver home up for sale. To many people, Metro Vancouver stands for diversity, but there a dark history behind how some local neighbourhoods and property owners dealt with minority groups. In Vancouver, West Vancouver and Victoria, owners tried to use restrictive land covenants to keep minorities from buying land and many of those covenants remain in place to this day. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.