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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (3559)	1/3/2008 11:49:42 AM
From: gg cox	Respond to of 42652

<<Canada passed a law that prohibited poor people from entering into their country for any reason.>> Don't know how that got in there, but not accurate in any way.In the late 1800's CPR shoved the railway through BC's mountains on the backs of cheap Chinese and Japanese labour....<<gg>> <<Between 1896 and 1914, some three million newcomers settled in Canada. Between 1901 and 1911, when the Canadian population rocketed by 43 percent, the percentage of foreign-born in the country as a whole exceeded 22 percent. Almost overnight, it seemed, immigration from Great Britain, the United States, Europe, and Asia had transformed the country, particularly Western Canada, into a polyglot society.>> cic.gc.ca

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (3559)	1/3/2008 12:05:26 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 42652

Some of those things are better now, some were better then. Certainly government regulation was better 100 years ago. That part is getting steadily worse. "The average wage in the U.S. was 22 cents per hour. The average U.S. Worker made between $200 and $400 per year . A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year, a dentist made $2,500 per year, a veterinarian $1,500 per year, and a mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year." All of these were without government wage taxation which meant that what a person earned was theirs to spend. I don't know, but I suspect that all of these things provided a relatively better standard of living than similar jobs do today after paying for the excesses of government.