A Caribbean Community in the North Atlantic: DISCO, Labour Migration, and the Creation of Whitney Pier, Nova Scotia, c. 1900–1930

Over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Dominion Iron and Steel Company in Sydney, Nova Scotia (DISCO) hired thousands of migrant labourers. Many of the workers settled in the nearby Whitney Pier. Among them were hundreds of African American and Caribbean men attrac...

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Main Author: Bonner, Claudine
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Les Publications Histoire sociale - Social History Inc. 2022
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Online Access:https://hssh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/hssh/article/view/41252