Let us now return to our arrival in Montreal, Canada...
A few days after our arrival I secured a job with the Montreal Street Railway. There were over 100 people repairing or extending the track. The foreman and most of the men were Italians.
I left to go to work in the morning at 6 o’clock am. We met the special street-car which took us to the place where we worked. Ten hours per day. Most of the men received 1.40 to 1.50 CAD per day, but I being green at the job received 1.25 Canadian dollars per day.
With the approach of winter, the month of November, the ground froze, the snow came, and the bulk of the workers, were dismissed. This meant that there would be no work except as we were able to find such as shoveling snow and such. The rest of the winter we played games, cooked our meals and, visited our paesani and went to the movies. Some of us went to school at night to learn English.
A few days after our arrival I secured a job with the Montreal Street Railway. There were over 100 people repairing or extending the track. The foreman and most of the men were Italians.
I left to go to work in the morning at 6 o’clock am. We met the special street-car which took us to the place where we worked. Ten hours per day. Most of the men received 1.40 to 1.50 CAD per day, but I being green at the job received 1.25 Canadian dollars per day.
With the approach of winter, the month of November, the ground froze, the snow came, and the bulk of the workers, were dismissed. This meant that there would be no work except as we were able to find such as shoveling snow and such. The rest of the winter we played games, cooked our meals and, visited our paesani and went to the movies. Some of us went to school at night to learn English.
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