Site Map

Home: the place and period this site covers.

• Children when Prince George was young
• Setting the scene

Freedom and work: When Prince George was a new city, young people had more responsibility and more freedom than young people do today.

• Fun for free
• Children had responsibilities
• Responsibility started early
• Want Jam? Pick Berries
• Taking care of animals
• Children got jobs early

Family: Nothing has more effect on children than their family life.

• Some problems reflect the times
• Toys have always been popular
• What's new is the definition of "news"

Community: Children are affected by the people and events around them.

• Growing a community takes time
• The organized outdoors
• Hard time hit everyone
• First Nations students were mistreated
• Parents had money. Kids didn't.

Activities: How children spent their free time in organized and unorganized activities including sports.

• Escaping town was easy as opening a book.
• "People made their own entertainment"
• New activities for young people
• Connaught Hill Park used to have a ski jump
• Swimming meant rivers
• Skating has always been popular

Health: Parents used to have more health problems to worry about. Many families didn't have all the children survive to become adults.

• A Century of Cures
• Some stories didn't have happy endings

Church: Churches had a social role as well as a religious one, organizing activities from picnics to Scouting groups.

• Churches organized activities
• More people went to church

School: Why schools got started, and how they were different from today.

• Parents got schools started
• One and two room schools
• New schools are a tradition

Conclusion: Since the period covered by this site, things have kept changing, and they'll keep changing.

• History never ends

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