Canadian Reform

In the early 1900s, the sudden growth of cities and industries, due to immigration, brought great changes to Canadian life. Although many people gained, a lot more lived in misery. Many families in the growing cities were no longer able to solve their own problems. Canadians then formed various organizations to build up 4 different types of reforms (labour unions, female suffrage, temperance and social reform) for rights to help impoverished immigrants.

Individual workers in the early 1900s could not do much about their poor working conditions and low pay. Even if they threatened to quit, it would not have helped them because the employers could easily find replacements among the new immigrants who were desperate for work. Low wages were better to most oppose to not getting paid at all, since there was no welfare or unemployment insurance back then. Unskilled workers got some support from the Industrial Workers of the World, a union that came from the United States. ...