Claim: A Canadian industrialist and politician in British Columbia who served as the Premier of British Columbia from 1900 to 1902, James Dunsmuir was resented by workers for the low wages and dangerous conditions that he imposed upon them despite his orders for the workers’ relocation to a better home.
Evidence: Workers also resented low wages and the dangerous conditions that Dunsmuir imposed upon them. Dunsmuir provoked further rage when he ordered workers to relocate their homes at a new pit. Mine owners at the time regularly ignored safety and sanitary conditions, and provincial inspectors were slow to bring them to justice. Dunsmuir contributed to the mines of British Columbia being among the most dangerous in the world.