e-branch	Login My List - 0 Help
	Home   My Account/Renew Loans   Community Info   KidSearch   New Catalogue!

Search Advanced By Format By Number My Searches Can't Find it? Find Magazine Articles & more Problems?

Search:  Call NumberItem BarcodeBib NumberISBN/ISSN       Refine Search     > You're searching: Halifax Public Libraries

Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Wong, Dukesang, 1845-1931.     Subjects     Wong, Dukesang, 1845-1931     Canadian Pacific Railway Company -- Employees -- Diaries.     Canadian Pacific Railway Company -- History.     Railroad construction workers -- British Columbia.     Chinese -- British Columbia -- Diaries.     Chinese -- British Columbia -- Social conditions -- 19th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Wong, Dukesang, 1845-1931.       by title:      The diary of Dukesan...       by call number:      385.0971 W872d     Search the Web     Wong, Dukesang, 1845-1931.     Wong, Dukesang, 1845-1931     Canadian Pacific Railway Company -- Employees -- Diaries.     Canadian Pacific Railway Company -- History.     Railroad construction workers -- British Columbia.     Chinese -- British Columbia -- Diaries.     Chinese -- British Columbia -- Social conditions -- 19th century.       MARC Display

The diary of Dukesang Wong : a voice from Gold Mountain / Dukesang Wong ; edited with commentary by David McIlwraith ; diary translated by Wanda Joy Hoe ; introduction by Judy Fong Bates. by Wong, Dukesang, 1845-1931. Talonbooks, 2020, c196-. Call #: 385.0971 W872d Subjects Wong, Dukesang, 1845-1931   Canadian Pacific Railway Company -- Employees -- Diaries.   Canadian Pacific Railway Company -- History.   Railroad construction workers -- British Columbia.   Chinese -- British Columbia -- Diaries.   Chinese -- British Columbia -- Social conditions -- 19th century. ISBN:  9781772012583 (pbk.) Description:  xxi, 119 p. : ill., portraits ; 22 cm. Notes:  Diary entries translated from the Chinese. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Summary:  "Here is the only known first-person account from a Chinese worker on the famously treacherous parts of transcontinental railways that spanned the North American continent in the nineteenth century. The story of those Chinese workers has been told before, but never in a voice from among their number, never in a voice that lived through the experience. Here is that missing voice, a voice that changes our understanding of the history it tells and that so many believed was lost forever. Dukesang Wong's written account of life working on the Canadian Pacific Railway, a Gold Mountain life, tells of the punishing work, the comradery, the sickness and starvation, the encounters with Indigenous peoples, and the dark and shameful history of racism and exploitation that prevailed up and down the North American continent. The Diary of Dukesang Wong includes all the selected entries translated in the mid-1960s by his granddaughter, Wanda Joy Hoe, for an undergraduate sociology paper. Background history and explanations for the diary's unexplained references are provided by David McIlwraith, the book's editor, who also considers why the diarist's voice and other Chinese voices have been silenced for so long."-- From publisher. Other authors:  Hoe, Wanda Joy, 1947- McIlwraith, David. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 385.0971 W872d Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.