Condition Of The Coloured Shacks

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Title

Condition Of The Coloured Shacks

Description

Newspaper article describing the conditions of the Shacks that immigrant workers lived in (AAs, Hungarians, polish and Newfoundlanders). The houses were described as having no sewage, the ventilation was horrible, no beds but just a very long table, and two families occupied a double house with four to six rooms in it.

Creator

Sydney Daily Post

Source

The Sydney Daily Post, “condition of coloured shacks,” November 24, 1905, 1.

Publisher

Beaton Institute

Date

November 24, 1905

Rights

Sydney Daily Post

Files

condition of coloured shacks.pdf

Citation

Sydney Daily Post , “Condition Of The Coloured Shacks,” Black Canadian History Exhibit, accessed December 5, 2025, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/mathieu-black-canadian-history-exhibit/items/show/59.

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