Chapter Seven: The Impact of Urban and Industrial Growth

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Question 1
How much faster could a farmer produce the same amount of wheat in 1900, compared to 1870?
a. 10 times faster
b. 25 times faster
c. 50 times faster
d. 100 times faster

Question 2
What did the British Columbia Packers Association do after assuming control over salmon processing on the West Coast?
a. It banned the fur trade.
b. It replaced most Native workers with Asian workers.
c. It ordered all Japanese workers employed in the fishing industry to leave their jobs within five years.
d. It allowed Native people to run their own canneries in return for their pledge not to fish for salmon for commercial purposes.

Question 3
Why did many children enter the work force as soon as possible?
a. to supplement family income
b. to increase chances of future employment by gaining experience early in life
c. to avoid being sent to probationary school
d. to avoid the government tax imposed on families with non-working children

Question 4
During peak season, how many hours a week did the average labourer spend working?
a. 40 to 50
b. 50 to 65
c. 60 to 70
d. 70 to 90

Question 5
How much did the average male worker employed full-time earn per week in 1901?
a. $6.18
b. $8.25
c. $13.38
d. $16.50

Question 6
At the end of the nineteenth century, women almost never worked as
a. teachers.
b. domestics.
c. office managers.
d. department-store clerks.

Question 7
After 1892, what was the punishment for selling, advertising, or publishing an advertisement about a contraceptive device or medicine without lawful justification?
a. two years in prison
b. $200 fine
c. public exposure in the media and a small fine
d. exile

Question 8
Women could belong to which of the following organizations?
a. the Orange Lodge
b. Victorian Order of Nurses
c. the Masons
d. none of the above

Question 9
The leaders of which organization believed that the primary purpose of unions was to simply improve material benefit of workers?
a. Provincial Workmen's Association
b. Confédération des Travailleurs Catholiques du Canada
c. American Federation of Labor
d. The Knights of Labor

Question 10
The Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, passed in 1907,
a. prohibited companies from attempting to resolve disputes without an appeal to provincial government.
b. prohibited strikes and lockouts in mines or public utilities until a special board investigated the dispute.
c. sanctioned the right of workers to belong to unions.
d. contained an important proviso about workers' compensation.

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