By Lydia M. Reid
The small town of Gatun in Colon has seen the evolution of the Panama Canal for more than a century, and its cemetery, the sacred burial ground of scores of Westindian (Antillean) workers of the French and American construction periods, has been witness to many significant historical phenomena. It saw the arrival [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘death-tolls’
09/15/2009
Gatun Cemetery
12/17/2008
The Panama Canal Death Tolls
By Lydia M. Reid
The actual building of the Panama Canal which, unknown to many, was carried out in two phases, brought in a whole new series of factors in calculating the cost of building an engineering marvel of the kind that was inaugurated in 1914 in the tiny republic of Panama. The first building phase [...]
09/27/2008
The Numbers- The Panama Railroad Part I
by Lydia M. Reid
It is one thing to read the cold death statistics provided in official sources but clearly another to actually experience, through traveller’s accounts, of how men (and women) braved one of the deadliest localities on the face on the earth at the time, the Isthmus of Panama, to participate in the [...]
