File 13 ➔ The Orientals in B.C.
Item
Identifier:
2023_15_01_13_002
Repository
Repository Web Site
https://www.ufv.ca/sasi/
Repository Identifier
GE 1-5
Date
1929;Date(s) of creation
Extent
1p. of textual records
Format
textual record
Description
Page from a student paper titled, "The Orientals in B.C." written by J. Ross Tolmie in 1929 for B.A. History at the University of British Columbia. The paper provides insights into the economic landscape and working conditions for South Asian men in British Columbia.
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Subject Headings - Library of Congress
Canada--Population--Statistics [http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100387];Rosener, Ann Women in industry. Gas mask production. Flower in hair, Betty Gumbetter adds glamour to the assembly line of a Midwest gas mask factory which formerly made vacuum cleaners. Operating a riveting press, which attaches cloth tabs to the face pieces of gas masks, this young worker is one of the many company employees who switched over from work on vacuums when the plant was converted. Betty likes her new job better than the old one. "It bears a lot more relationship to my American Women's Voluntary Services work," she says. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan 1942 July [http://id.loc.gov/resources/instances/19638830];Beal, Fred Erwin, 1896-1954 Foreign workers in a soviet tractor plant Moscow: Co-operative Pub. Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R.; 1933 [http://id.loc.gov/resources/instances/6886537]
