"...a group of White Canadians opposed a new Chinese...etc." And white Vancouverites did, Sanchez, and not that long ago. Only nobody called them racists.  They called them patriots. 

All that changed when Tong Louie and his fiancé had the temerity to buy a house outside Chinatown in the white neighbourhood of Dunbar. Potential neighbours were outraged  Didn't this Chinese know his place?  They presented a 83-signature petition to Alderman Halford Wilson who drafted a bylaw that made it illegal for Asians to own or rent property outside "their own designated localities."  It failed, when Tong's UBC classmates and some other residents came to the couple's defence. The Tongs settled in without further ado. The years was 1941--less than 80 years ago. Tong went on to become one of B.C.'s most prominent businessmen, linked with IGA and London Drugs.