Comprehension Questions

1. What happened in the early 1800s that changed the Port Hood area?
2. How did MacKenzie and Mann raise money for the rail line?
3. Why did they stop their rail line at Inverness?
4. Why did men leave the farms to work in the mines?
5. What were the red houses?

Place Values

This reading has several numbers in it: Example: 300 miners, 60 miles. This would be a good time to review place values.

0 is zero 1s.
10 is ten 1s.
100 is ten 10s
1,000 is ten 100s.
10,000 is ten 1,000s.
100,000 is ten 10,000s.

Each place has ten times the value of the place to its right.

Fill in how many ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, and ten thousands are in the numbers below.