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Workers: Plains & Alberta
C.P.R. Construction Laying track on the Canadian Plains for the C.P.R.
ID #20746
Alberta Rails "Dagos" laying new steel rails, Alberta.
ID #21848
Relief Project, Alberta Relief project: loading clay for the provincial highway, Cooking Lake, Alberta, 1933.
ID #21858

Workers: Quebec
Les Forges du Saint-Maurice
ID #21968
National Transcontinental-2 Men and horses at work on the National Transcontinental Railway, which ran from Quebec City to Northern Ontario, late 19th century.
ID #20364
World War I Workers Women soldering fuses at Verdun, Quebec, during World War I.
ID #20851
Tank Production Producing tanks at the Montreal Locomotive Works in 1942, for use by Canadian and British forces garrisoning Britain.
ID #20934
Ram Tank Assembly Assembling instrument panels for Ram tanks, Montreal, 1942.
ID #21896

Workers: West Coast
Cariboo Gold Diggings In 1858 gold was first discovered along the lower Fraser river and later on the slopes of the Cariboo Mountains in British Columbia, as pictured here.
ID #20705
Cariboo Shack A gold miners' shack in the Cariboo during the gold rush of the 1860s.
ID #10017
Chinese Construction Camp A Chinese construction camp, Kamloops, British Columbia, with some of the hard-striving immigrants from China, who built so much of the dangerous mountain mileage of the C.P.R.
ID #20743
Miner's Cabin Miner's cabin at Eureka Silver Mine, British Columbia, 1872.
ID #21836
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