HISB41H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bsc Young Boys, Common Children, Canadian Pacific Railway
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Today"s agenda: what was industrial revolution, canada in the industrial age, commercialized farming, fish, forests and furs, mining, the national policy, the impact on human and labour relations, children, women c. Immigrants and racialized minorities: the union movement, the family in the industrial economy. Two phases of industrialization: 1850-1900: rapid expansion of consumer goods industries (textiles, footwear, cigar, 1900-1929: surge in capital goods industries (machinery, heavy equipment; new technologies leading to developments in mining, pulp and paper, electrical and chemical industries) British north america was very influenced by britain. Montreal was canada"s leading industrial city in 1867: location on st. lawrence was good for made, cheap labour. Between 1851-71, toronto was transformed into a place where 70% of the population worked in shops that employed 30 people or more. Intercolonial railway was promised to the maritimes in section 145 of the british north.
