Hi Donna, I grew up on a tobacco farm near Tillsonburg.

Blue 04 MX 5 The Tollenaars were the family I worked for. I remember getting done by 3 and then heading to Turkey Point for some water skiing I had a lot of fun those summers.

We have the same issues out in BC and I think Canadians can't be blamed for not wanting to do it. Focusing on pay alone seasonal work is a financial risk. You can do this sort of work in the late summer and early fall months but what else is there the rest of the year? Most orchards pay $12 to $15 an hour which falls pretty closely in line with provincial minimum wages. Picking time for apples for example falls around the start of the school year. No one is gonna skip the first month and a bit of high school or college or quit a steady year round minimum wage job to travel on their dime to work a temporary minimum wage job. Quitting is probably the only option many would have to do this as very few managers are gonna willingly short staff their establishment so you can go pick fruit or tobacco for a month or two, you probably won't have a job there upon your return. Even if you're unemployed sometimes traveling the distance to the job isn't an option, especially with Greyhound more or less gone in Western Canada. I don't believe it's an issue of Canadians won't do it so much as Canadians can't do it.