Blood and Sweat over the Railway Tracks

This recollection of an important historical event, the CPR Construction which employed thousands of Chinese labourers to build the transcontinental railway linking this country from coast to coast. In her writing, Lily Chow reveals the reasons for constructing the railway and why and how the Chinese labourers were recruited and transported from Guangdong to the various construction sites in British Columbia. She illustrates the difficult and dangerous tasks that the Chinese labourers had to perform bearing testimonies to the challenges, hardship, struggle, and endurance of these workers. Despite the hard labour these men displayed an excellent work ethic, and were diligent and dependable people. Included are some poems and verses by a couple of Chinese labourers and their family members to show their anguish, anxiety, and longing—human feelings and emotions that had been repressed.

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