In 1920, Montreal postal workers were on the job all night on Christmas eve, so that carriers could deliver the last of the Christmas mail on Christmas morning, as reported in the following item from the Montreal Star, December 23, 1920. The real Christmas mail arrived from the Old Country this morning, when the Empress […]
Tag: Labour
7-day work week just isn’t Christian
The normal six-days-a-week of work (usually 12 hours a day) is fine, but seven-days-a-week just isn’t Christian, according to this item in the London Advertiser, February 6, 1902. Most of us have to work in this country, and practically all of us feel and respond to that need. It is in working that we learn […]
Work hard or stay home
Be prepared to work hard or stay home, was the advice offered to prospective immigrants to Manitoba on April 15, 1879 by the Winnipeg Daily Times in the following article. Immigrants and adventurers. The people we need and those we don’t want. A floating population who find it hard to float. The eyes of all […]