French Canadians and the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution lasted many years, and it occurred through many states and countries. One of the countries that it went through was Canada, which caused the spreading of Canadian immigrants. There were many reasons for them to leave their country because of political reasons and the moving of companies. Also, America had a lot of opportunities for new immigrants, so some Canadian companies moved to America. After almost half of the Canadian population went down in numbers, Canada had to change. Nevertheless the immigrants didn't really have a big effectimpact now but Canada helped turn America and New England to its new industrialized self. One of the biggest characteristics
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The Great Depression made the industry's loose in opportunities for jobs there companies in general were at a lost. The Great Depression was when the stock market crashed and made millions of businesses go out the industry. The Great Depression occurred mostly in the western industries. All the jobs being lost created more Americans to move to the eastern industries which created them to boom. But then in 1932 New england got struck and Rhode Island took a hard hit. The Rhode Island mills had shrunk by one third of from its peak of employment in the 1920s (Buhle 50). In addition to the ups and downs in the Industrial Revolution, The Civil War actually helped with making more industries which created a larger Revolution. The Civil War was the fight between slavery and freedom. Between the confederates and the union. “ After the civil war, New England became highly industrialized, and the number of french canadians increased notably,Growing from 103,000 in 1870 to more than 200,000 in 1800, 365,000in 1890 and 573,000 in 1900”(Ember 292). As you can see the population grew and grew over the years and made the industry boom in …show more content…
Children as well as adults worked in the mills for extra money towards the family. But because they were children they were already more prone to accidents and these machines were huge, complicated and very sharp. The mills were hot and they did the same work over and over again it got boring. Then soon they started to believe they weren't getting paid enough money for the work they were doing everyday. Which caused the workers to get very mad, but remember it was only Canadians working in these mills there were also Americans too. In the cotton mills they worked on spinning and weaving. The French companies were very specific. They wanted every piece of clothing and material to be perfect. They started work from 5:00 in the morning and they ended usually around 11:00 at night. “ Woonsocket textile wages were generally low. In the early 1900s,... for example, reportedly received $7.50 for a 60 hour week” (Hudson 36). This generally wasn't that bad amount of money for back then. So they were okay with the pay it was there working stations that they could not
The Great Depression made the industry's loose in opportunities for jobs there companies in general were at a lost. The Great Depression was when the stock market crashed and made millions of businesses go out the industry. The Great Depression occurred mostly in the western industries. All the jobs being lost created more Americans to move to the eastern industries which created them to boom. But then in 1932 New england got struck and Rhode Island took a hard hit. The Rhode Island mills had shrunk by one third of from its peak of employment in the 1920s (Buhle 50). In addition to the ups and downs in the Industrial Revolution, The Civil War actually helped with making more industries which created a larger Revolution. The Civil War was the fight between slavery and freedom. Between the confederates and the union. “ After the civil war, New England became highly industrialized, and the number of french canadians increased notably,Growing from 103,000 in 1870 to more than 200,000 in 1800, 365,000in 1890 and 573,000 in 1900”(Ember 292). As you can see the population grew and grew over the years and made the industry boom in …show more content…
Children as well as adults worked in the mills for extra money towards the family. But because they were children they were already more prone to accidents and these machines were huge, complicated and very sharp. The mills were hot and they did the same work over and over again it got boring. Then soon they started to believe they weren't getting paid enough money for the work they were doing everyday. Which caused the workers to get very mad, but remember it was only Canadians working in these mills there were also Americans too. In the cotton mills they worked on spinning and weaving. The French companies were very specific. They wanted every piece of clothing and material to be perfect. They started work from 5:00 in the morning and they ended usually around 11:00 at night. “ Woonsocket textile wages were generally low. In the early 1900s,... for example, reportedly received $7.50 for a 60 hour week” (Hudson 36). This generally wasn't that bad amount of money for back then. So they were okay with the pay it was there working stations that they could not