Baisha 白沙镇
Town
Baisha Location in Guangdong
Coordinates:22°14′45″N112°35′41″E / 22.24583°N 112.59472°E /22.24583; 112.59472
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Guangdong
Prefecture-level city	Jiangmen
County-level city	Taishan
Area
• Total	238 km2 (92 sq mi)
Population
• Total	140,000
• Density	590/km2 (1,500/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

Baisha (Chinese:白沙;pinyin:Báishā;Jyutping:baak⁶saa¹;lit. 'white sand';Taishanese: Bak-sa)^{[needs IPA]} is a town ofTaishan,Guangdong province.^[1] As of 2018^[update], it has two residential communities and 18 villages under its administration.^[2] It has a population of 140,000^[when?] residing in an area of 238 km² (92 sq mi).

Baisha town was the ancestral home of many of the firstChinese Canadians.^{[citation needed]} Their descendants live all over Canada, and used to predominate before the 1980s in the Chinatowns of Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Banff and Edmonton, and USWest Coast cities such asSan Francisco andSeattle.^{[citation needed]}

Citation:https://asian.library.ubc.ca/files/2011/08/Head-Tax-brochure2-1.pdf

Baisha Town is one of the few regions in northernGuangdong province where illegal rare earth mines were operating.^[3] Baisha Town is rich in rare earth minerals such asdysprosium.^[3]

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The Baisha variant ofTaishanese is fading amongst the descendants of Canadian-Chinese, asCantonese andMandarin become more dominant. Based on observations of Chinese-Canadian elders living in Edmonton between 1980 and 2005, it would seem that the Taishan language spoken in Baisha in the mid-20th century differed somewhat from that spoken in Taicheng (Hoiseng in the Hoisan language, 台城), the county seat of Taishan (Hoisan, 台山县). Indeed, the pronunciation was more or less the same as that of people living across the river in the next county,Kaiping (Hoiping in the Toisanese language, 开平). One notable difference can be seen in the shift of certain vowel sounds, as follows:

Besides the differences in some vowel sounds, the consonant[b] ofMandarin is usually realized as[v], and[p] as[h].

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