A truly dedicated #wednesdaywalk in the coming rain 🙂 wow that river is raging with all the water from Debby. The little mill industrial town is fascinating to think about. Can you imagine living your life in one of those small company villages? Your whole life and whole world was go to work, go home, go back to work. Hard to imagine people lived like that... but they did. And some probably felt grateful they had a good job and house versus scraping out an existence on a farmstead somewhere.
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life was rather difficult, as the mills were owned by wealthy English-speakers and the workers, such as sawyers and log drivers, were French-speaking. And they didn't have the same rights: no access to schools for their children, or even to church... Truly another time.
I forgot I was talking to a Québécois 😉 but I do agree it was even worse than I imagined due to the race/class issues.
Fortunately that has changed... life couldn't have been easy, especially in winter.