Anti-Chinese Party

The All-Rainian Anti-Chinese Party was a prominent political party in Rainier that existed from 1885 to its dissolution in 1902. Between 1888-1900 it was the third largest party in Rainier after the National and Union parties.

The Anti-Chinese party was formed in 1885 by workers' angry at the government's decision to import labourers from to help finish the Pacific Railway. The party's platform emphasised total opposition to further Chinese immigration and to all Chinese people living in Rainier to keep Rainier "pure". Over time the party attacked immigration from, and  on the basis that they were Catholic and adopted a distinctively anti-Catholic character. The Anti-Chinese party was strongest in Cascadia, Oregon and British Columbia.

The party won a fair number of seats in the 1888 and 1894 elections, often attributed to the powerful oratory skills of their parliamentary leader Adam Thatcher. However Thatchers death and the party's growing splits over the "" led to the party to decline. In 1900 the party lost all its seats in the House of Councillors and in 1902 the last of its provincial seats.