Rural and Urban Life. British North America Mid-1800s.

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Rural and Urban Life. British North America Mid-1800s

Transcript of Rural and Urban Life. British North America Mid-1800s.

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Rural and Urban Life.

British North America

Mid-1800s

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Rural Life: Field Work

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Hard Work

Economic Empowerment:• Cattle – cows, horses, sheep, pigs. • Crops – plowed, tilled, planted and harvested

crops using animals and manual labour.

Life:• Smaller communities – people socially close to

one another to help support themselves. • Environment: clean air, few job opportunities

besides farming.

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Urban Life

Life: • Crowded – houses, streets. • Poverty – illnesses, poor food, many recent

immigrants, unemployment.• Many cultures, many clashes (discrimination).

Economic Life: • Industrial work – factories

– Environment – dirty air, garbage and human waste,

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Montreal mid 1800s

McCord University Archives.

Web Tour of Montreal.

Montreal 1850-1896: The Industrial City

Images:

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“Think It Through” Page 81• Your task: Write a different job description

from a different regions in BNA.

• Step 1: Brainstorm.

• Step 2: Write a paragraph describing your first job description. Remember to indent, spelling, punctuation, etc.

• What job are you describing? Who would work that job? Where they would work (rural, urban, PEI, NB, NS, etc)?