How long does it take to read Dear Canada?
An Ocean Apart: The Gold Mountain Diary of Chin Mei-Ling
Gillian Chan
Dear Canada by Gillian Chan takes about 3 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 59 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2004. 217 pages, about 59,675 words. Written for children.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Mei-ling lives with her father in Vancouver, but her mother and baby brother are still in China. Mei-ling works after school, and her father holds down several jobs, in a frantic effort to come up with the head tax that will allow her mother and brother to come to Canada. They must have that money before the Exclusion Act bars any more Chinese from immigrating. Mei-ling cannot stop thinking about what will happen if they are unable to come up with the money to reunite their family?
Subjects: Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.), Chinese, Diaries, Emigration and immigration, Fiction, Government policy
