Their numbers were unstable, rising and falling with the boom and bust of gold mining. The second location was in northeast Oregon, which became the gateway to the Inland Empire in the southeast corner of Washington Territory (1859-1889), with specific reference to Walla Walla and the Boise Basin in present-day Idaho (1863-1890).įrom 1855 through 1865, the majority of Cantonese-Chinese settlers in Oregon were miners, with a minority of merchant types. These Chinese formed a geographical and chronological extension of Cantonese-Chinese mining activity in northern California’s Shasta and Trinity Counties. They went first to southwest Oregon, with the largest number settling in Josephine and Jackson Counties fewer went to Douglas and Grant Counties. In the early 1850s, these miners and a handful of merchants settled in two different but widely separated parts of Oregon Territory. Small groups of Cantonese-Chinese miners, who arrived in Oregon Territory in 1850-1853, represented the first Chinese migration beyond northern California, the earliest and primary location of Cantonese-Chinese settlement in America (1850-1860).
This region forms the central third of their home province of Gwongdung (Cantonese pronunciation Guangdong is the standard Pinyin "Mandarin" Chinese spelling, formerly spelled in Wade-Giles Mandarin as Kwangtung.) This group decisively shaped the first century of Chinese experience in Oregon. They immigrated to America primarily from the Pearl River Delta region in southeast China in the century from 1850 to 1960.
The Cantonese-Chinese were the first Chinese in Oregon.
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