the Aryan races will not wholesomely amalgamate with the Africans or the Asiatics .. the cross of those races, like the cross of the dog and the fox, is not successful; it cannot be, and never will be.

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speaking about the Chinese, debating the 1885 Electoral Franchise Act in the House of Commons, Official Report of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada (Ottawa: Maclean, Roger & co, 1885) (Henceforth, Commons Debates), 18, May 4, 1885, 1582.

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page 82 of Contesting White Supremacy: School Segregation, Anti-Racism, and the Making of Chinese Canadians quotes this | same 1885 speech, quoted in 2012 Macleans article

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