1. What is the difference between a chance and a clean-up chance?

  2. What were living conditions in the woods like for the loggers? Is the same true today?

  3. What was the most common food in the logging camps. Why?

  4. What did the "scaler" do? Why didn't the loggers trust the scalers?

  5. How was it possible that a logger could work 26 days a month and still make hardly any money? Compare the loggers job to that of the mill worker. Which was better?

  6. Why did Sir John Hope Simpson and Commission of Government cover up the Bradley Report? Does the same kind of thing happen today?

  7. What do you think of Hope Simpson's idea of a "reasonable" standard of living for the average Newfoundlander? Do you think the government of today feels the same way?

  8. Why did it take such a long time for unions to be successful in Newfoundland's logging woods? Why do you think Premier Joey Smallwood did not want the IWA union to set up in Newfoundland?

  9. Compare the logging conditions of today with those of the 1930s.

Activities

Visit one of the logging museums in Newfoundland.