What life was like for Chinese Railroad Workers? By; Malik, Emma, Hank, Nick, Gabry, Kevin

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Family life

after the railway was completed most chinese workers had little money and could not afford to return to canada or bring there families to canada. to earn extra money, many chinese workers took on dangerous jobs, such as lighting explosives to blast tunnels though rock. some workers died and their families in china were never told.

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Social Life

why the chinese people came to canada. Many Asians were brought to Canada to provide cheap labour. More than 17,000 Chinese came over in the early 1880s to build the most dangerous and difficult section of the Canadian Pacific Railway. One worker died for every mile of track lay through the Rocky Mountains between Calgary and Vancouver.

The work was really difficult, the pay was low, and workers were injured and killed at a very high rate. For Chinese workers, though, it represented a chance to enter the workforce, and they accepted lower wages than many native-born Canadian would have.

Why did they leave?

Economic life

these railway workers were paid only $1.00 a day and that $1.00 was used for thier food.

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As well as being paid less, Chinese workers were given the most dangerous tasks, such as handling the explosive nitroglycerin used to break up solid rock. Due to the harsh conditions they faced, hundreds of Chinese Canadians working on the railway died from accidents, winter cold, illness and malnutrition.

When Canada became a contry in 1867 they wanted to unite the contry.In order to do that though they wanted to make a railway from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. They called this plan the Canadian Pacific Railway and went for British Columbia to Quebec.In Canada's western provinces

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History

a chinese worker working in the railways, carrying buckets. over 17,000 chinese people immigrated to canada during 1881 to 1884.

Chinese workers have been working hard.However, even after the railway was completed, Chinese immigrants barely got paid. Fortunately, the Canadian government finally formally apologized to the railway workers' descendants in 2006, almost 150 years later.

Chinese people came to B.C from China for a better life. The Canadian government approved Chinese immigrants working in B.C to construct railroads, and construct an economy there, especially after gold was found in the region. They went through extreme hard work, constructing through winding mountains, rivers, and prairies. They also faced racism from European constructors, who believed that Chinese workers were taking away their job opportunities.