First Nations workers picking strawberries, June 1943

• Main Author: Staff Photographer Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Croplands; Indians of North America > Employment > British Columbia; Strawberries; British Columbia; Canada; Indian; First Nations
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/6674

In 1943, the Vashon Island Packing Company hired 80 First Nations people from British Columbia for the summer to weed and harvest strawberries, gooseberries, loganberries and currants. The Indian workers earned 50 to 60 cents an hour, reportedly two to three times what they might have made at home....