Main Days of Toil and Tears: The Child Labour Diary of Flora Rutherford; Almonte; Ontario; 1887
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Days of Toil and Tears: The Child Labour Diary of Flora Rutherford; Almonte; Ontario; 1887

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An eleven-year-old orphan is reconnected to her mother's family, but her courage and strength are tested as she is put to work in a textile mill. Flora is a young, imaginative girl who has dreamt of having a family to call her own since her parents died from pleurisy when she was three. She dreams of family dinners. She dreams of friends. But mostly she dreams of leaving the orphanage. As the diary begins, Flora is still in an orphanage in Kingston, but her Auntie Janet has just married, and she and her husband James send for Flora to come and live with them in Almonte, Ontario. Once she arrives at her aunt's, Flora begins work in the Almonte Mill, even though she is underage — typical for many children of the era. She works from dawn to dusk, near huge and noisy machines, and she sees the effects of the mill on workers who have lost an arm or their hearing. Still, this life is better than going back to the orphanage. But when Uncle James loses several...
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Year:
2022
Publisher:
Scholastic Canada
Language:
English
ISBN 10:
1443124052
ISBN 13:
9781443124058
ISBN:
9781443124058, 1443124052
Series:
Dear Canada

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