Life in Canada 150 Years Ago
Across
- 3. What other popular entertainment featuring performers came by?
- 6. Today, Canada is a ______________ country.
- 7. What industry did most people in Eastern Canada work in?
- 9. What jobs were kids in big cities likely to work in?
- 11. How did kids get to school in the past?
- 12. Most families did not send ________ to school because they thought it wasn't important for them to learn.
- 15. In the early 1840s, Ontario and Nova Scotia made a law to create ___________________ schools.
- 16. What school supply was often shared between students?
- 17. Many families ate this meal they found in the water.
- 19. What did kids also have to carry to school to help keep warm?
- 20. This was how many families found meat to eat.
Down
- 1. school What was high school called by 150 years ago?
- 2. Instead of pens, students back then used this to write.
- 4. Students often missed school because they had to go help out the family ____________.
- 5. The jobs most people in the Western Provinces
- 8. What outdoor sport was popular in the summer?
- 10. The tallest plant in the 3 sisters garden.
- 13. What is the name they used to call blackboards in the past?
- 14. Indigenous children were forcefully taken away and were made to attend _________________ schools by the government.
- 18. What outdoor sport was popular in the winter? time?