An advertisement for Japanese Canadian sugar beet workers. (courtesy of Heather Robertson, Sugar Farmers of Manitoba)
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Able bodied men and women, young and old worked long hours on the southern Alberta sugar beet farm. Many families were unused to farm labour. (photo: K. Sam Nishiyama, Toronto)
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Ooto, Miki and Hayakawa families were uprooted from Haney, B.C. to Ste. Agathe, a small French Canadian town, to work on the sugar beet farm. (photo: Shizuko Miki)
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A sugar beet workers house in Ste. Agathe where three families shared four rooms. (photo: Shizuko Miki)
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