Published by admin on Wed, 08/16/2017 - 9:00am
That Braidwood and the surrounding coal towns were hubs for immigrants from all over the world still fascinates me.
They came in waves, usually one nationality at a time. The prejudices they grew up with came with them. But also came the good things. Let's look at just one.
The earliest wave of immigrants came from the British Isles, the Irish, English and the Scottish, were all familiar with life in the coal mines and for the most part they all spoke English.