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Recruitment of Tobacco Pickers [sound recording]

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Accession

Date:

[1950s to 1960s?].

Reference:

R1206, 2016-0065 VSA, 2015-01444-6

BAN no.:

2015-01444-6

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

4846577

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Date(s):

[1950s to 1960s?].

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1 audio cassette (8 min)

Language of material:

English

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Sound recordings (Electronic) See Film, Video and Sound database for item-level descriptions. Use local accession number "2016-0065". (90: Open)

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General note:

Accession consists of a Canada Employment Centre (?) tobacco-picking audio recruiting advertisement for 2500 tobacco farms in southwestern Ontario (location of most of Canada's tobacco farms), requiring 25,000 workers to harvest 220 million pounds of tobacco leaves.

During its peak between the 1950s and 1960s, tobacco farming required farmers to hire in advance large numbers of strong, stalwart pickers. The advertisement speaks of 6-8 weeks of "hard, dirty" work during the summer and provides a detailed description of the work involved. The advertisement mentions that once registered with the Employment Center (or Farm Labour Pool) workers' needs and transportation were taken care of by the Centre. In 1967, Stompin' Tom Connor wrote the song "Tillsonburg" which chronicles the hardscrabble life of tobacco pickers.

Source:

Government

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1972-0120 MISA
1991-0335 MISA
1996-0094 MISA
2002-0062 VSA
2008-0014 VSA
2016-0065 VSA
R1206-292-8-E

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2016-0065 VSA

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2015/002
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