Keyword: wages
Gold Rush Reports
Newspaper article covering Gold Rush reports from Big Bend, Kootenay, Rock Creek, Boundary and Chinamen diggings. 8,000 to 10,000 men expected at the Big Bend and paddlewheelers being built on the Columbia River. Large influx of miners projected at Wild Horse and thousands of Chinese on the Columbia around Fort Sheppard.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0017 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | July 6th 1865 |
Chinese Miners
Newspaper article certificate on competency required of each coal miner proving he is sufficiently conversant with the English language to ensure he is a safe employee.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0035 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | February 29th 1908 |
Court re Wage Payment
Newspaper article court session case of Chinaman against Wilmer Hotel for unpaid wages.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0057 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | February 10th 1909 |
Cranbrook Teachers Pay Increase
Coverage of the requested pay increase for teachers of Central, South Ward and Kootenay Orchard schools.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0063 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | June 11th 1920 |
Chinese Discrimination
Newspaper excerpt Silvertonian hears of people who express approval to those who hire Chinamen who send their wages out of country, but then they patronize the Chineses cheap department stores.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0073 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | May 18th 1898 |
Railway Violence
Newspaper article trial of man accused of murdering his friend and fellow countryman could not be decided by jury.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0087 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | September 28th 1898 |
Chinese Exclusion
Newspaper article Ottawa dispatch states British Columbians white laborers excited over government refusal to adopt legislation restricting the immigration of Chinese laborers.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0093 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | November 14th 1891 |
CPR Construction Corps
Canadian Pacific Railway company authorized to organize a railway construction corp for overseas service. Rate of pay and positions attached.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0097 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | March 25th 1915 |
Opium
American government officials feel as soon as snow melts there will be a great rush by smugglers to get opium from B.C. across the border to U.S.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0159 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | March 15th 1894 |
Hate Letter
Letter to the editor from England remarking how Chinese in Canada never become citizens and lower wages, then ship any money back to China.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0179 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | May 6th 1897 |
Cranbrook Typographical Union
Herald office now officially a member of Typographical Union office, also Herald urges certain business men not to send their printing back east but use the Herald or the Prospector.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0197 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | August 22nd 1907 |
Cranbrook Typographical Union
Cranbrook Herald now entitled to union label and officers of the union elected, although the wages will stay the same as Herald was already paying the going wage.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0198 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | August 22nd 1907 |
Southeast Kootenay Report
Government Agent's report on southeast Kootenay. Report goes into number of men employed in mines and average pay.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0219 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | January 30th 1904 |
Northeast Kootenay Report
Government Agent's report for Northeast Kootenay. Report touches on wages paid to miners and lumber workers, as well as ore and timber numbers that shipped out.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0220 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | January 30th 1904 |
Mountain Lumbermen
Secretary of Mountain Lumber Manufacturers Association gives data on industry for 1920.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0264 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | January 6th 1921 |
Chinese Competition
Now that the Chinese Commission has shown that the Chinese have indeed taken over the labour market, what are they going to do about it?
| Internal ID: | 0050.0470 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | April 17th 1901 |
Chinese Labour
Sanitary Inspector of British Columbia feels we should give all jobs to white men at resonable wages which will negate the need for Chinese immigration, which would also stop them from bringing over typhoid epidemics and small pox.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0475 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | June 5th 1901 |
Salmo Incident
Newspaper excerpt Western Clarion - incident at Salmo where white employees of Kootenay Shingle Company ousted in favour of Chinese and Japanese workmen are not the Orientals fault but the employers.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0550 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | May 6th 1905 |
Cranbrook - Relief
Cranbrook City Council making preparations to apply for a share of the federal government's $20,000,000 relief fund.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0720 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | October 23rd 1930 |
