Hasan's Assginment 10.

Day 1, 1880.

Dear diary, we just finished working on the rail way the goes through the Fraser Canyon, which is the most dangerous part of building the railway.

Many of my friends have died because of either a disease or in a construction accident. Our work is dangerous, and the worst part is, us, the Chinese rail workers, that are doing the dangerous work of setting explosions in the mountains so we can build the railway through, are only getting 1$ a day! While whites, blacks, and natives are getting 3$ a day.

Most of us live in tents, they don't really provide protection against falling rocks, or when the weather is bad. Most of my non-Chinese friends live in sleeping cars and railway-built houses, which we don't think is fair.

Many of us are dieing, at least 1 Chinese worker is dieing per mile. So many people died over the course of the year, when we first came here in 1880, we had 5000 workers, after a year of work, we are left with 1500 people only.

I drew a map of how the railway is going to be like when we are all finished.


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