TITLE:
Days of toil and tears : the Child Labour Diary of Flora Rutherford
By:
Publication Date:
2008
Publication Information:
Toronto : Scholastic Canada,
Physical Description:
219 p. : ill.
Summary:
A fictional diary of a young girl in Almonte, Ontario, set in 1887. After moving out of an orphanage and in with her aunt, Flora begins to work at the mill, enduring long hours and dangerous machinery. The book provides young readers with history on the Canadian textile industry and child labour at the turn of the 19th century.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780439955942
General Note:
"Kingston, Ontario, 1887."
"Almonte, Ontario, 1887. "
