- What is the difference between a chance and a clean-up chance?
- What were living conditions in the woods like for the loggers?
Is the same true today?
- What was the most common food in the logging camps. Why?
- What did the
"scaler" do? Why didn't the loggers
trust the scalers?
- 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?
- Why did Sir John Hope Simpson and Commission of Government cover
up the Bradley Report? Does the same kind of thing happen today?
- 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?
- 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?
- Compare the logging conditions of today with those of the 1930s.
Activities
Visit one of the logging museums in Newfoundland. |