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Life In the 1850 to the 1870
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Jobs
In 1840 markets for surplus farm products were well developed in both local and distant markets.These products were first sold for goods and services then later they started to cost money. These goods made the settlers lives easier with the foodstuff and merchandise available. Some other jobs are timber and fur trade. Timber trade people had to cut down tree’s to clear the land and fur trade would trade fur.Sawmills and shipbuilding were a part of timber trade that became an important industry. -
Children Eduaction
In 1850 to1855 there was a series of act, which was passed in West Canada creating a framework within which a system of common school education could develop. As the Superintendent of Education of the province, he set up schools with trustee elected to put the building and hire teachers. Children would complete school in six years just to learn basic mathematics, literacy, science, history and Christian principles. Children's; which parents could afford, would pursue further in their studies. -
Famous Women
Many women back then have done many great things. When their use to be slaves, Harriet Tubman was the leader of her lost group of escaoing from Maryland U.S.A to safety to Canada. This occured in 1860 in december. Another women who had done a first of something this year. That person is Mrs. Kwang Lee which arrived in Victoria, British columbia. She was the first chinese women to come to Canada. There were also so many deaths this year. For example, Helena Jane Coleman who was a great author. -
Clothing
Around the 1865 all the wealthy settlers would wear clothing often made at home that was cloth spun at home and woven domestically or professionally weaved. The style would be conservative like the French later the English. Most ready-made clothing became more available but the working class continued to make it at home. The men wore garments but in the 1800 they’re more varieties. Later on the manufactured English cloth started to be used for daily wear that replaced the homespun. -
Married Women’s Act
The married women’s property act took place in1870. Before 1870 women had to give all their property to their husbands. Women had a few legal rights. They had to give their money, furniture, stocks and livestock’s and not be allowed to do anything with it without their husbands consent. But widows and single women were allowed the rights of female women and allowed to own their property. But this was put to a stop around the1870 to1880. -
Invention of the Telephone
Samuel Morse invented the telegraph in the 1870's and Alexander Grahman invented the telephone. The telephone would communicate great distance with reliability, accuracy and speed. Previously, communication over distance was drum; smoke signals, semaphores and trumpets, or physically transporting written messages by carrier pigeons and human travel.
