Many Chinese men enticed to Canada’s west coast in the 1800s worked at menial labor jobs. In this Chemainus mural (based on a photograph from the Victoria Lumber & Manufacturing Company) twenty three men from the “Chinese Bull Gang” are straining to move a huge timber through the lumber yard to a sailing vessel. Planks made a smooth track for the cart wheels.
Chinese Bull Gang - painted in 1984 (by Ernest Marza, Victoria, B.C.)
(Click on photo to enlarge. )
For more Chemainus 1984 to 1987 murals, go here.
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