Bemocked of Destiny the Actual Struggles And Experiences of a Canadian Pioneer
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For instance, the road maker is the "buck beaver"; the road repairer is the "guipe, " implying a low down job ; the foreman is the ' ' push, ' ' a most appropriate name ; the little store of supplies for the men in one side of the office is the "van"; and so on. The most of the shantymen in the lumber camps of Northern Ontario are Frenchmen and even boys from the province of Quebec. They have no superiors at all kinds of work in the woods. The rest of the gangs are mostly farmers' sons from old...er Ontario, down the Ottawa river way. They come in the major- ity of cases from good Christian homes, but too many of them get demoralized by the bad influence of a few American blackguards and thieves that are to be met in almost every camp, and the old hands that have been broken in; and the filthy, blasphemous talk in the "sleep camp" at night is frightful to hear. They are not allowed to talk at their meals, not on this account, but for the sake of peace and order. Then, after working like slaves all fall and winter in wet and cold weather, when they come out in the spring they literally throw away their hard-earned wages in the hotels and dives of the nearest towns, as if they were a parcel of lunatics running at large.
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