In dangerous and dirty child labour, boys as young as eight years, toiling in the nineteenth-century coal mines of mines coal mines of Nova Scotia and British Columbia, were portrayed as happy and carefree. The hours were frequently long and the work was often heavy. Nova Scotia set the first minimum age requirement at […]
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Gun-toting gold rush miners
Vancouver Island was the scene of a gold rush in the 1860s, although the colony’s mountain streams never panned out as well as the richer and more spectacular diggings on the Fraser River and in the Caribou country. Many of the prospectors who swarmed north were Americans. Carrying revolvers was illegal but such gun toting […]