sep 10, 1916 - A Thousand Caribbean Migrant Labourers for the Dominion Iron and Steel Company
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"In 1916, the Dominion Iron and Steel Company in Nova Scotia was given permission to import a thousand Caribbean labourers due to lack of available labour. These men were relegated to the lowest-paying most dangerous work directly next to the ovens and furnaces (Calliste 1996 in McCalla and Satzewich 2002: 38)."Source: Robyn Maynard. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (2017). Page 39.
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sep 10, 1916
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~ 108 years ago