Demodigger
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Hi all,My first post here inspired by my good friend Mikey up here on the west coast of Canada in Vancouver. To start the story i do alot of house demo sites and this is one of them. The house was built in 1892 and was the house of the bookkeeper of the B.C. sugar company which was built & finished in 1892 as well. The house was being torn down a couple years ago and of course i had to check it out, so i went and had a look. This is not a detectable lot because it is a commercial lot now on a busy main street so only able to have a root around inside the mostly torn apart interior. The house i could see was jacked up in the 30s-40s and a bottom story added so i went up to the 3rd floor which was the main floor when originally built. Looking at the paneling i could see that they were nailed with square nails and thought this is the original part of the house. So i thought i would take some of the wainscoting on the walls off & take home, well behind the paneling there was between the studs something that caught my eye there were three panels of this poster used as insulation, so carefully pulled them out and layed them to gether and this was what i was looking at. After researching the house and the meaning of this poster the Vancouver city museum called me and purchased it and restored it. Back at turn of the century here in the Pacific Northwest the Chinese were harshly prejudice and charged a head tax to come into the country and were paid less that the white man and this poster proves it buy saying dont hire the Chinaman for 10 cents a day, hire a white man for 2.00 a day. Enjoy
