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| What good luck did Laurier have during the 1870's? |
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| Why was England becoming rich? |
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| Gold from South African mines |
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| How did this (England becoming rich) benefit Canada? |
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| Wealthy industrialists invest in British Columbia |
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| What new source of capital did Canada have? |
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| How did better shipping and the railway help Canada? |
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| Helped export to world markets |
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| Which growing industry needed pulp and paper? |
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| Why is this trend reversing today? |
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| More people are using the internet |
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| What were two main metals found in the Canadian Sheild? |
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| Which three industries grew in BC? |
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| What did the CPR do after it extended its line into the Kootenay area? |
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| What were homestead lands? |
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| Public land granted to settlers by Canadian and U.S government |
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| Why did Canada expand its hydro electrical production? |
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| Because Canada was expanding |
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| What were the hallmarks of the Laurier era? |
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| What two trends worked together? |
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| Why did more American come up after the Depression? |
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| Demand for wheat and end of free homestead |
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| Why were some of his policies controversial? |
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| Recruitement to lure people |
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| What are dryland farming methods? |
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| Farming methods for places with little rain |
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| What is an "Open Door" policy? |
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| An immigration policy that puts no restrictions on who can migrate |
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| Where did most of the settlers come from ? |
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| Why did so many British farmers fail? |
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| They're not from a farming background |
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| What were two main differences between American and European settlers? |
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| American were more welcomed, Americans brought tools |
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| How many Americans came to Canad between 1896 and 1914 |
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| Where did most of them settle? |
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| What were "home children" ? |
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| What was Nellie McClung's profession? |
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| What was the main reform she (Nellie McClung) was striving for? |
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| Womens suffrage and prohibition |
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| When Laurier came to power, who was allowed to vote? |
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| Only white male landowners |
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| Name three groups not allowed to vote? |
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- Women
- Native Canadians
- Immigrants of Asian ancestry
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| How long did it take to do laundy in most houses? |
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| How many children were in most families |
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| In 1900, how many women went to university? |
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| What percent of women attend university now? |
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| What type of people became sufferagists? |
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| Mainly middle class women |
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| What did they believe was the root of all society's problems? |
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| What did they think the male dominated governments lacked? |
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| Who was Susan B. Anthony? |
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| Suffragist, Suffragist leader |
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| What was the name of the suffrage movement in canada? |
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| Why did more western women feel they deserved equality? |
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| Women worked as hard as men |
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| How long did the fight for suffrage last in BC? |
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| What year did women get the right to vote in BC? |
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| What was the goal of the federal government regarding the First Nations people at the turn of the century? |
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| Assimilate native people into Canadian society |
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| Wht did the Royal Proclamation of 1763 state about the First Nations? |
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| What happened to Native children? |
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| sent to residental schools |
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| What was the language issue? |
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| Forced not to speak their language |
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| Why was James Douglas unique in early Bc politics? |
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| He recognized native ownership of land |
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| Why has land issues been delayed in early BC? |
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| What did the Bc Native chiefs do in 1911? |
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| Presented Povincial government regarding land titles, treaties, and self-government |
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| What were "cut off" lands? |
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| Land removed from native reserves |
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| What did the federal government do about "cut-off" lands? |
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| Passed law to remove requirement for consent to the sale of cut-off lands |
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| How long did the Nisga'a land claim take to solve? |
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| What did they get from the treaty? |
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- $200 million
- 1930 kilometres
- 18 reserves
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| What decides wether Nisga'a laws are leal or not? |
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| Where did Laurier encourage the nisga'a to take their claim? |
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| Judicial committee of the British Privy Council |
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| When was the treaty finally signed? |
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| What is the most notable change in the Nass Valley today ? |
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| Why were Prairie farmers upset with the CPR? |
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| The Monoply of the CPR and its high rates |
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| Where did the Canadian Northern Railway Extend its lines to? |
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| What did the BC government do in 1901? |
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| Invited Mackenzie & man to extend their lines through the yellow head pass |
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| How much money did the CN get from the government? |
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| What did they do with the money? |
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| Name four cities selected as divisional centres for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway? |
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| Edmonton, Saskatoon, Prince George, and Prince Rupert |
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| Where did the Grand Trunk Railway terminate? |
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| Which citry did the CN choose as its main divisional point in BC? |
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| How were towns along the new railway named? |
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| Starting at A and going through the alphabet as many times as necessary |
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| The physical feature of an area |
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| Which two rivers join at Prince George? |
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| How did WW1 make the new railways unprofitable? |
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| Reduced immigration, ended the flow of British capital |
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| What did the government do to solve this problem? |
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| Consoliated all railways that didn't belong to the CPR |
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| What happened to Canada's populations between 1891 and 1921? |
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| What percent of the immigrants settled in the west? |
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| Which part of the west did most of them settle in ? |
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| Why did they settle there? |
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| Which two reasons were the push-pull factors? |
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| Need to leave ones homeland, and lur of opportunity in another country |
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| why did the Ukrainians leave their homeland? |
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| Crop failures, Starvation, Overpopulation, Political restriction |
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| Why did the Doukhobors leave their homeland? |
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| Service in the arm was against their beliefs |
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| How many Doukhobors were in Canada by 1899? |
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| Why did the Americans come here after 1892? |
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| How much money did they need? |
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| Which four things did they need to have? |
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| Plough, Wagon, Horses, Milk cow |
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| How did immigrants raise this money |
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| Work long hours on other peoples farms, in lumber, railway, or ming camps |
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| What type of houses did they build? |
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| Name three short comings of this type of house? |
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| Flies&Flees, Leaked, smelled in the summer |
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| State two major advantages of this type of house? |
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| Name three other hardships that they faced? |
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| Cold winters, Monotonous diet, and Natural disasters |
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| How mush did the population of the prairies grow between 1898 and 1914? |
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| Why did immigration cease in 1914? |
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| How many of the new immigrants settled in the cities? |
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| How did this affect Montreal and Toronto? |
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| At the beginning of WW1, what percent of the population of Canada lived in the cities? |
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| Which two things worked against the city immigrants? |
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| Unskilled, and spoke little English |
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| How did the government help them out |
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| Why didn't the children get an education? |
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| They worked to help income |
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| Which two types of mechanical transportation were invented in the 1890's? |
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| What invention made them more popular? |
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| When did automobiles first appear? |
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| Which car was the most affordable? |
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| Who stared the assembly line for autos? |
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| What happened in PEI during 1908? |
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| What two reasons did the PEI government give for this? |
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| Tore up roads, scared children and horses |
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| When did the first gas station appear in Canada? |
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| What three great mechanical events happened in 1903? |
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| Cars, motorcycles, and Oldsmobile |
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| Which was the major Canadian automobile company? |
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| How many telephones were there in Canada in 1901? |
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| How many more cars were there in Canada in 1916 compare to ten years previously? |
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| What happened on Signal Hill in St. John's, Nfld. in 1901? |
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| Why was radio sow to catch on? |
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| People listened to cylinders |
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| Why did the phonograph catch on so quickly? |
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| Which great disaster happens in the Atlantic in 1912? |
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| What year did movies first appear in Canada? |
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| When was the first flight in Canada? |
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| Why did the first female pilot quit flying? |
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| Her husband died in a plane accident |
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| Why were Canadians so keen on telephones? |
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| What hours did a telephones operator work |
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| What brought the world's attention to radio in 1912? |
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| Why did so many people move to Canada from the US in the early 1900's? |
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| Why did new food become to popular in the 1900's? |
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| What was the law about swim suits? |
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| Had to cover ankles to neck |
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| Which Canadians did not benefit from the prosperity of the Laurier era? |
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| Who controlled most of the Canadian industry? |
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| How did the tax system help perpetuate this? |
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| Why did workers start to organize labor unions? |
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| They wanted a greater share of wealth |
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| During what time frame did unions start in Canada? |
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| How many Canadian workers joined unions during this era? |
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| Why were the companies able to lock-out the unions whenever they wanted to ? |
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| Easily replaced and the Government was on their side |
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| What kind of confrontations happened between 1910 and 1914? |
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| Violent confrontations between employers and workers |
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| Who usually acted as goons for the companies? |
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| Who controlled the coal industry on Vancouver Island? |
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| What were some of the dangers n the coal mines? |
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| Dark and wet conditions, bad equipment |
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| What were some of the hardships caused by the working conditions? |
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| Long hours and small wages, killed in explosions |
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| What were the Dunsmuirs famous for? |
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| Hire strike breakers and cheap Asian workers |
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| Which four mines were affect by the miners strike of 1912-1914 |
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| Extension, Cumberland, Nanaimo, and Ladysmith |
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| What did the company do to the workers in 1913? |
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| Threw strikers out of company homes |
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| Would this be legal today? |
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| What happened in Nanaimo? |
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| When riot broke out militia came, strikers were arrested |
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| How many people went to prison? |
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| Who were Tessa Lowinger and Jennifer Wiebe? |
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| Two young girls who worked at mcdonalds |
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| What did they do in 1998? |
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