Sentences with phrase «of farm labourers»

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Lord Chisholm, one of many British gentlemen to settle in Southern Alberta around the turn of the 20th century, likely had the wooden tower for his windmill built by labourers on his farm near Crossfield, Alberta, in 1893.

He is of Romany descent; his father is a farm labourer, and his grandmother, who brought him up, and claims to have second sight, works at the Abbey as a cleaner — but Dan, who has won a scholarship to Cambridge, is on the cusp of change, about to abandon his home, his family and his class.

Capa's photographs of the collective farm appear to portray socialist - realist style happy labourers bringing in a harvest under blue skies, where the reality was of a community struggling to return to any kind of normality in a land pockmarked with shell - craters.

Prior to the first kerosene tractors, farm work was done using human and animal energy and most of the food produced on the farm went to feed the human and animal labourers — family labour, farm labour, draft horses, stock horses, cows, calves, pigs and chooks.

One consequence of this law was that men of Japanese origin between the ages of 14 and 45 were taken into custody and consigned to work as road camp labourers in the British Columbia interior or on farms in the Prairies.