What is Child Labour?
Other Effects of Child Labour
Impact on Education
Impact on Canadian History/Education Now
Key People/Events
100

The definition of child labour

What is the use of children in an industry or business, especially when illegal or inhumane?

100

The effect of child labour on families.

What is getting separated from their families at a young age?

100

The approximate years where all Canadian provinces enacted legislation requiring school attendance.

What are early 1900's?

100

The enrollment rate for secondary school in 2022.

What is 108%?

100

The years Egerton Ryerson introduced compulsory education laws.

What is late 1800's?

200

The years where attitudes towards child labour starting to change.

What are the late 1800's? 

200

The effects of child labour in agriculture

What is being exposed to toxic chemicals and having to work with dangerous and heavy tools?

200

The reasons why children who work don't get a proper education.

What are long work days and not enough money to attend school?

200

Children under the age of 14 cannot work more than this amount of hours a day

What is 8?

200

Other than compulsory education laws, Egerton Ryerson also established these to improve quality of education.

What are teacher training programs?

300

The reasons why children were preferred employees over adults.

What is being cheaper and more manageable?

300

The effects of child labour in mining

What is working with poisonous chemicals, facing the risk of mine collapse, and working with explosives?

300

The outcome of children overworking themselves to the point where they could not focus on their studies

What is high dropout rates?

300

In this province, children under the age of 14 now have to receive written permission from their parents in order to be employed.

What is Quebec?

300

The outcome of the Ontario Child Labour Act of 1908.

What is prohibiting children under the age of 14 from working in factories?

400

The causes of child labour

What are poverty, conflict/war, and demand for cheap labour?

400

The effects of child labour in manufacturing

What is using toxic solvents, performing painful tasks, and risking injury from sharp tools?
400

The range of children's ages who were forced to leave school to work full-time jobs.

What is 12-14?

400

Children under this age are now required to attend school and have restricted employment.

What is 16?

400

The old and new name of the university named in honor of Egerton Ryerson

What is Ryerson University and Toronto Metropolitan University?

500

The common industries where children find work.

What is agriculture, mining, construction, manufacturing, and domestic work?

500

The effects of child labour in construction

What is carrying heavy loads, working at heights without safety equipment, and risking injury from dangerous machines?

500

Due to a lack of education, children who worked during this period were often confined to these types of jobs as adults.

What are low-wage, unskilled jobs?

500

Canada's future due to the reduction of child labor in the early 1900s.

What is better child welfare and universal access to education?

500

The name of the government official that had introduced and enacted Regulation 17 in 1912.

Who is Sir James P. Whitney?

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