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Social Science Emigration & Immigration

Enduring hardship

The Chinese laundry in Canada

by (author) Ban Seng Hoe

Publisher
Canadian Museum of History
Initial publish date
Jan 2003
Category
Emigration & Immigration
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781772823707
    Publish Date
    Jan 2003
    List Price
    $15.99

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Faced with discrimination, early Chinese immigrants had little choice but to create their own economic niche. From the turn of the twentieth century into the 1950s, generations of Chinese immigrants toiled as laundry workers. This book poignantly describes why the Chinese laundry remains a symbol of hard work, sacrifice and enduring hardship.

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