I've passed through Norfolk County many years for beach trips to Long Point, and over time I've found many of these Tobacco fields have given way to Ginseng ones; the government is far more tolerant and the clientèle (China) is plentiful. How times change.
Around about 1949/1950, my father was working for a gold mine in northern Quebec for 75 cents/hour, when his friends in southern Ontario wrote him to come on down to the hamlet of Copenhagen in Elgin County, and work picking tobacco for 80 cents/hour! Tobacco worth more than gold!!
i knew a guy from quebec who did this in mid 80's. he said worst thing about job. everything stunk of nicotine. hard to wash bad smell out of clothes even.
I've passed through Norfolk County many years for beach trips to Long Point, and over time I've found many of these Tobacco fields have given way to Ginseng ones; the government is far more tolerant and the clientèle (China) is plentiful. How times change.
Around about 1949/1950, my father was working for a gold mine in northern Quebec for 75 cents/hour, when his friends in southern Ontario wrote him to come on down to the hamlet of Copenhagen in Elgin County, and work picking tobacco for 80 cents/hour! Tobacco worth more than gold!!
i knew a guy from quebec who did this in mid 80's. he said worst thing about job. everything stunk of nicotine. hard to wash bad smell out of clothes even.
Well they weren't working in a rose garden..