New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island (P.E.I) : Differences & Similarities (In the mid 1830's-1850's

New Brunswick

Boys

Similarities: They had education

Girls

Similarities: They also had education

Differences: Only middle class girls
were educated

Women

Similarities: They did all the house chores,
clean, laundry, looking after kids

Differences: Women in New Brunswick also had to
farm, become teacher for kids, they had to do wood cutting,
they went to church, and make clothes

Men

Similarities: Had jobs outside of houses
Differences: The men had to mine, were allowed to vote,
had to work with government's property, they did ship building, & make more money than the other women, children

P.E.I

Boys

Similarities: They had education

Differences: As young as the age of 7,
boys would have to work, looking for any job they could find.
They would do the wood work, cut down trees, do the farming, etc. Some boys weren't even educated and had to do just work

Girls

Similarities: They had education

Differences: In P.E.I, they had to help the women (their mother) with the chores, had to help clean } housework,
& always remained at their houses

Women

Similarities: They did the chores inside the house, clean, do the laundry, make clothing, etc. (any jobs within the household)

Differences: Instead of the women doing the wood work (In New Brunswick), they had to make candles for lighting

Men

Similarities: They did the jobs hat were outside of the household

Differences: They had to do the wood working, cut trees, & buy more would if needed

New Brunswick

Similarities: There were Mi'Kmaqs in both provinces

Differences: In New Brunswick, they also had the Maliseet's tribe, Passamaquoddy tribe, and they had the Irish settlers as they were the first settlers in New Brunswick

P.E.I

Similarities: They also had Mi'kmaq's in their provinces

Differences: The Mi'Kmaq's were the first settlers in P.E.I along with other tribes

New Brunswick

Similarities: The conference was distributed by both provinces including Nova Scotia
Differences: The first government was elected which was George Coles in 1851

P.E.I

Similarities: The conference was distributed by both provinces
Differences: P.E.I needed someone with strong leadership so they had an election and Samuel Tilly was elected

New Brunswick

Similarities: They used used horses for main transportation
Differences: They did used wagons also, for farming

P.E.I

Similarities: They also used horses for main transportation
Differences: They used boats also for main transportation and they also invented cars but they were pretty expansive at the time