HISB41H3 Lecture Notes - Industrial Revolution, Pink-Collar Worker, Second Industrial Revolution
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Terms: handicraft, manufactories, stephen, join stock co. , branch plants, tanneries, foremen, utilities. Consolidation, mowers/threshers, cobalt timmins, royalties, mechanized, pink collar , division of labour, per capita, merchant capital, pulp and paper: urban industrial revolution changed canada the most. Changed entire life of canadians: rise of modern industry (1880-1900) Ontario+quebec: by ww1, quebec was the main one (most industrialized and urbanized, majority of quebecers were involved with manufacturing, 1931, ontario had 50 different car companies, heavy on manufacturing companies. Most of good land had already been taken up. Decline of this caused a surplus pool of cheap labour in the expansion of industry. Wheat in canada vs wheat in america (mid-west) Young people in rural areas are left with no work; therefore looking for new jobs. Lumber demand was falling; hurt the maritime and quebec (dependent on exportation of wood) Surplus of young men and women either went to the states or the canadian west.
