HISC45H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hollinger Mines, Indentured Servant, Northern Ontario
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Kelsey kilgore office hours: wednesdays from 12-2pm; hw 404. Austro-hungarian empire: a lot of immigrants from the east came to canada for homesteading: fueled economic growth in canada at this period, referred to as (cid:862)(cid:374)avvies(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)(cid:271)u(cid:374)khouse(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:863) Became important to the logging industry: the big season for logging is the winter time, predominantly men. Built the bc section of the canadian pacific railway (cpr) If they survived the intensive work, the chinese took the cash and moved back to china (cid:862)bu(cid:374)khouse (cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:863) The railway workers slept in railway boxcars and bunkhouses. Were primarily sekes: came from fishing and cannery (putting fish into cans) Plenty of japanese/southeast asians came over as well. Most men come from agricultural farms in order to earn desperately needed cash. What"s good for (cid:271)usi(cid:374)ess is good for the (cid:272)ou(cid:374)try. Many americans from california came up to canada to live on the west coast (bc)
