The Labour Movement in Canada

prior to 1830, but of their nature and proceedings little definite is known. The printers and shoemakers of the cities of Quebec, Montreal and Toronto, following the radical traditions of their trades, were among the first to organize-in the 1830's and 1840's. But before 1850 the movement was negligible in Canada, and for reasons that are sufficiently obvious. Land in the old provinces was plentiful; the domestic system of production largely prevailed; and life was economically simple. The social and industrial unrest that swept over the United States and Europe between 1825 and 1850 was only faintly felt in Canada. Nor had Canada the educated and leisure classes whose leadership in philosophic radicalism so stimulated the labour movement in Great Britain during the second quarter of the last century

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