Gender Roles

WOMEN
-defined into social classes
-did not usually own property
-did not work outside of home
-almost all women were married
-spinsters or unmarried women were often pitied
-relied on relatives
-typically did all of the house hold chores
-taught daughters how to be good housewifes

MEN
-depended on what class they belong to
-spent there days working
-hunted
-fished
-did the building
-faught
-earned wages where as thdid not
-did not raise the children like the women did

CHILDREN
-hauled water
-churned butter
-boys helped father stack wood etc.
-younger children helped do small things such as dry dishes and set tables
-older children mostly girls 12 and up help with cooking and cleaning
-some children who lives in towns went to school
-children who lived in the country, their mothers taught them to read and used the bible for alot of education
- fed animals
-dishes and laundry

journal entry one

We arrived in Toronto's town market on Saturday December second. After two days of travel from our home in Sydenham Township just west of belleville. My older brother George an I had come to the market to sell our goods: apples, potatoes, salt pork & pies and cakes mother had just baked. We came to the Toronto town market because father said most of the folks around here paid in cash, and we needed that in case the rumours of the rebellion shut the banks for a while.

We did well at the market, selling almost all of our goods in two hours. George let me run off through the town for a bit to check it out, there were people rioting about government and the rebellions. A fight broke out and a wagon rolled off heading towards the lake, I chased after it, along with other men and we reached it before it disappeared into icy waters.

The rebels' leader Mackenzie thanked me for putting up a fight and coming to his rescue, I was proud of myself.

When I arrived back to where I had left George in the Market he didn't want to here my story, it was getting late. I thought we were heading home now but apparently George had some business to do before he left Toronto. He had specific instructions to leave him there and head up to Montgomery's Tavern and he would meet up with me later. If he never showed up, I was supposed to start home.

(picture of W.L. Mackenzie fromhttp://sophiebury.ca/ocanada/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/wl-mackenzie.jpg)