While many will be celebrating national pride on Canada Day, one group will be seeking redress for what it calls a “national shame.”
Canada Day will see the eighth annual redress rally in Vancouver's Chinatown.
Sid Tan with the Members of Head Tax Families Society of Canada says three-thousand families want negotiations with the federal government over their head tax experience.
"We're getting stronger. Head tax and exclusion families are organized and the future looks bright. It's just a question of when the government is going to realize this is an issue of justice."
Prime Minister Stephen Harper settled with just under 800 families in 2006.
But Tan says there were 82-thousand families eligible for compensation.