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Rural and Urban Life.
British North America
Mid-1800s
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.
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,
Montreal mid 1800s
McCord University Archives.
Web Tour of Montreal.
Montreal 1850-1896: The Industrial City
Images:
1, 4, 5, 11, 19, 20, 22.
“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)?