What is Child Labour?
The definition of child labour
What is the use of children in an industry or business, especially when illegal or inhumane?
The effect of child labour on families.
What is getting separated from their families at a young age?
The approximate range of years where all Canadian provinces enacted legislation requiring school attendance.
What is late 1800's to early 1900's?
The age most children were expected to start working
What is 7?
The years where attitudes towards child labour starting to change.
What are the late 1800's?
The effects of child labour in agriculture
What is being exposed to toxic chemicals and having to work with dangerous and heavy tools?
The reasons why children who work don't get a proper education.
What are long work days and the inability to attend school?
Children under the age of 14 cannot work more than this amount of hours a day
What is 8?
The percentage of Canadian children aged 5 to 9 in school by 1911
What is 40%?
The common industries where children find work.
What is agriculture, mining, construction, manufacturing, and domestic work?
The effects of child labour in mining
What is working with poisonous chemicals, facing the risk of mine collapse, and working with explosives?
The outcome of children overworking themselves to the point where they could not focus on their studies
What is high dropout rates?
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?
By 1914, this Canadian province had implemented a compulsory school attendance law for children aged 7 to 14, despite previous resistance from communities.
What is Ontario?
The causes of child labour (all of them!)
What are poverty, emergencies, conflict/war, and demand?
The effects of child labour in manufacturing
The range of children's ages who were forced to leave school to work full-time jobs.
What is 12-14?
Children under this age are now required to attend school and have restricted employment due to education reforms made in the 1900's.
What is 16?
The exact year Ontario legislation required compulsory school attendance for 8 - 14 year old children.
What is 1891?
The number of hours a week considered as unsafe labour practices for children ages 15-17.
What is 43 hours a week?
The effects of child labour in construction
What is carrying heavy loads, working at heights without safety equipment, and risking injury from dangerous machines?
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?