In addition to the women who were recruited for domestic service, another labour scheme - which started in Jamaica in 1966 and was extended to the rest of the Caribbean in 1974 - recruited temporary farm workers, thus bringing an additional Caribbean presence, comprising primarily Black men. They worked and continue to work - on farms in Alberta, Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Ontario (accounting  
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[^0]:    9 According to Calliste, 'they were in great demand as domestics since few Canadians were attracted to this work; indeed, most Canadians left such work as soon as possible because of the deplorable working conditions - low pay, long hours, hard labour, low status, isolation, and lack of independence and respect. Unlike European women, most Caribbean women remained in domestic service since other areas of employment were closed to them [...] most employers expressed satisfaction with their employees because they were cheap, intelligent, industrious, devoted, fond of children, docile, polite, submissive, and, unlike some domestics, "they knew their place" (Calliste, 1993/1994, p. 141).