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Days of Toil and Tears: The Child Labour Diary of Flora Rutherford (Dear Canada)
Days of Toil and Tears The Child Labour Diary of Flora Rutherford - Dear Canada Author:Sarah Ellis Almonte, Ontario, 1887 Young Flora is happy to leave the orphanage behind and join her aunt and uncle, even though it means working at a textile mill where there is the constant threat of being injured or going deaf. She writes about her feelings in her diary, addressing her father and mother who died when she was five. Then her uncle loses seve... more »ral fingers at the weaving machine leaving him unable to work, and money is very tight. Can Flora help her aunt and uncle survive?« less