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Rural and Urban Life. . British North America Mid-1800s. Rural Life: Field Work. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/022/f1/a117285.jpg. Hard Work. Economic Empowerment : Cattle – cows, horses, sheep, pigs.
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Rural and Urban Life. British North America Mid-1800s
Rural Life: Field Work http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/022/f1/a117285.jpg
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)?