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This 3 page paper uses four articles to examine what life was really like for Canada's poor and working class in the early 1800s. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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of the West has been so romanticized that its easy to forget how hard the life really was and how much the indigenous peoples suffered. Canada too has its
myths about bygone times. This paper uses four articles to examine what life was really like for Canadas poor and working class in the early 1800s. Discussion In the
piece "Farm Households and Wage Labour in the Northeastern Maritimes" Rusty Bitterman talks about the myth of the "independent yeoman," a resourceful breed of farmer who settled on the "free
land" of the Maritime Provinces to carve a prosperous living for himself and his family (Bitterman, 2000). The reality however was that as many as a quarter to one-third
of all farmers couldnt make enough from their farms to support their families, and so went to work for others ("wage work") for some months of the year and worked
their farms the rest of the time (Bitterman, 2000). Both men and women worked for others, but certain industries, such as shipbuilding, were exclusively male (Bitterman, 2000). The
end result of this was a situation in which people lived a sort of dual life, both self-employed and working for others (Bitterman, 2000). Bittermans article is scholarly in tone
and suggests several avenues for further research; it also draws quite a clear picture of the difficulties many of the farm families endured as they struggled to keep both their
farms and their other jobs. However, as the author also makes clear, there were those who wanted to keep the farm going so they could work elsewhere, and still
more who worked so they could return to the farm. Thus, we have a portrait of a strange but apparently effective way of living; but it is at odds
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