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Migration To The Goldfields-MM-435G8-356LML
Migration To The Goldfields-MM-435G8-356LML
Migration To The Goldfields-MM-435G8-356LML
Melbourne could not handle the population Fresh food and water were hard to acquire, so Clothing was poor and low quality because there
boom, so people lived in tents pitched in groups people mostly ate mutton stew amd damper. were no stores in the area ad people were forced
known as Canvastown on the banks of Yarra Chinese diggers would often eat rice, cabbage, to live together with the clothes they brought.
River. chicken noodle soup, bean sprouts ,and tea.
Daily Tasks Kids on the Goldfields Health & Sickness
Kids would also be given laborious tasks by their Canvastown was very dirty, so disease outbreaks
Everyday, people would leave their belongings to family members. Whatever needed to be done would occur often.
test their luck and go digging. that they couldn’t do themselves, they had their
kids do.