PHDid you know that Irish workers during the 1843 Lachine Canal strike marched into the heart of Montreal, led by fife players?
During the 1843 Lachine Canal strike, an estimated 1,100 to 1,300 workers on the Lachine Canal expansion project in Montreal—then part of the Province of Canada under the British Empire—walked off the job after their wages were cut by one-third, down to just 2 shillings a day. The canal workers were predominantly marginalized Irish migrant labourers who lived with their families, including women and children, in the shantytown around the worksite. They demanded their wage be increased to 3-and-a-half shillings a day, and they wanted to be ρáíd in cash, not credits to the company store, which was operated by contractors.
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During the 1843 Lachine Canal strike, an estimated 1,100 to 1,300 workers on the Lachine Canal expansion project in Montreal—then part of the Province of Canada under the British Empire—walked off the job after their wages were cut by one-third, down to just 2 shillings a day. The canal workers were predominantly marginalized Irish migrant labourers who lived with their families, including women and children, in the shantytown around the worksite. They demanded their wage be increased to 3-and-a-half shillings a day, and they wanted to be ρáíd in cash, not credits to the company store, which was operated by contractors.
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