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Jobs in Canada 1860-1890

  • jobs in 1860s

    jobs in 1860s
    Common jobs for the women, men and children were trading, blacksmith, working at a mill, Farming, Working in weapon factories, sharpener, musician, actor, author, chimney sweep, bootblack, farrier, hack man, lamplighter, wheelwright, buildhouses, clear lands, ship wright, train engineer politician,Feed the pigs, peeling apples, sewing,teacher, baking and working in shops.
  • Jobs in 1865

    Jobs in 1865
    Common jobs for women were school teacher, take care of their children and wash cothing by hand. For girls without the education to become teachers, factory work and domestic service were two of the commonest forms of employment . Steel Mills was huge then. They were trying to abolish slavery.
  • Jobs in 1870

    Jobs in 1870
    Common jobs where glace makers, brick and concreate manufactores, lumber mills for houseing, iron steel mills, farming macheniry. Kids had to go to school between the ages 5 and 13. The woman jobs for the family were to provide the basic needs food and clothing.Canada in earnest, as well as new classes of hired domestic help: female servants and home children.
  • Jobs in 1875

    Jobs in 1875
    Average of 35,000 dead (500,000 injured) per year in industrial accidents. Children worked 60 hours per week and took home pay that was a third the size of adult males. Most of the men where doing industrial work.
  • Jobs in 1880

    Jobs in 1880
    People in the 1880 move from rural farms to the urban cities,The time of the industrial Revolution. Women were seemingly on the road to achieving proffesinol, legal, and educational quality with men. Elementary and secondary education was generally available to women. Children were to work as soon as they were able to. Everyone in the family had to contribute to survive they had to work hard to be successful.
  • Jobs in 1885

    Jobs in 1885
    They had finished building the Canadian Pacific railway for people to travel. The industrial Revolution created many new jobs in factories and mills, but working conditions were harsh, tiring, and unsafe. A typical 10-hour day ran from 7:30 AM to 6:00 PM, 6 days a week. The hour-hour lunch break was unpaid.Many Canadian families sent children out to work to help buy food and pay bills because parents' wages were so low. Even children under the age of 10 were sent out to work.
  • Jobs in 1890

    Jobs in 1890
    Common jobs for women were cooks,maids,waitresses, working in factories and making charcoal. Working-Class and immigrant families often needed to have many family members, including women and children they had to work in factories to survive, mostly had to work 10 to 12 hours a day. Common jobs for men were farmers, traders and lumbermen. The kids would have to go to school. While the children assisted with daily chores, children learned valuable skills they would need as adults.