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

2. Rural Life: Field Work

3. 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.

4. 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,

5. Montreal mid 1800s McCord University Archives. Web Tour of Montreal.
Montreal : The Industrial City
Images:
1, 4, 5, 11, 19, 20, 22.

6. “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)?