This Week in History: 1907 The Asiatic Exclusion League is formed

Anti-Asian hysteria was rampant on the west coast of North America in the early 1900s.
In San Francisco, whites formed the Japanese and Korean Exclusion League in 1905. Two years later, a Canadian version appeared in Vancouver, the Asiatic Exclusion League.
“The object of this organization is to work for the exclusion from the Dominion of Canada, its territory and its possessions, all Asiatics by the enforcement of an act similar to the Natal act,” said a story in the Vancouver World