Through the first +/-125 years of Canada's history, new Canadians were white Europeans for the most part. They "looked" like one's notion of a Canadian after the French-British colonization."
Yes, Dizzy, that would be true of most Canada--but not the west coast.  

8,000 Chinese were invited to BC in the 1880s to help build a railroad that white workers didn't want to dirty their hands building. Between 1900 and 1907, 23,000 Chinese and Japanese had arrived in B.C.  Sounds like "mass immigration".  It wasn't. Five years later, B.C.’s 28,155 Chinese and Japanese—both foreign-born and Canadian-born—still represented less than one percent of the province’s 392,480 people.

1914, Nanaimo Free Press: “We are afraid that they ["Orientals"] would swamp our civilization... ”  

1921, Prince Rupert Daily News:  “We cannot afford to take any chances in regard to the building up of a nation with ideas and standards of living different from our own.” 

Ridiculous then.  Ridiculous now.