The Quebec Ship Labourers' Benevolent Society

Type of resource
Author/collaborator
Title
The Quebec Ship Labourers' Benevolent Society
Abstract
A study of one of Quebec's first trade unions. The Quebec Ship Labourers' Benevolent Society was founded in 1857 as a mutual aid organization by Irish longshoremen at the Port of Quebec. The author details the working conditions at the port, as well as the relationship between the "established" (pre-famine) Irish of Quebec City and those who came in the 1840s and 1850s as a result of the famine and hardships in Ireland.
Publication
The Canadian Historical Review
Volume
Vol. 30
Issue
no. 4
Pages
336-343
Date
December 1949
Language
en
Citation
Cooper, John I. “The Quebec Ship Labourers’ Benevolent Society.” The Canadian Historical Review Vol. 30, no. 4 (December 1949): 336–343.
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