A group of people who came to Canada in search of religious freedom
Who are Mennonite people?
100
The person traditionally in charge of household tasks in Polish families new to Canada.
Who is the wife? Daughters and grand-mothers also contributed.
100
Newcomers to Canada often came searching for opportunity because they had little of this.
What is money?
100
Many immigrants came from China to work on this Canadian project. Working conditions were terrible.
What is the CPR?
100
A person or family that chooses to support a newcomer to Canada
What is a sponsor?
200
A way immigrants from China made extra money during the construction of the railway.
What are dangerous jobs? Many died and their families were never informed.
200
A group of people who often had large families.
Who are the Mennonite people?
200
The main source of income for many Mennonite families
What is farming?
200
This group of people helped settle Canada’s prairies. They also contributed to our country’s mining, forestry, and farming industries.
Who are immigrants from Poland?
200
The land that people built their homes on and farmed.
What is a homestead?
300
A city highly populated with Jewish immigrants in 1901.
What is Montréal?
300
A large festival in Toronto for families from the same area to socialize and celebrate.
What is Toronto’s Caribbean festival?
300
Immigrants from this country with training or experience often worked in healthcare, education, or in business
What is Jamaica?
300
In the 1800s, tailors from this religious group helped create Montréal’s garment industry.
Who are Jewish peoples?
300
A fee that Chinese immigrants had to pay to enter Canada after the railway was finished and before 1923.
What is a head tax?
400
An industry where many Polish immigrants would work.
What is forestry?
Or
What is mining?
400
A language spoken by most immigrating Jewish people in the 1880s.
What is Yiddish?
400
Some immigrants from Poland would leave their homes for months to earn extra money to buy these things
What is livestock?
Or
What is farm equipment?
400
Because of their traditional agriculture way of life, Mennonite people helped feed Canadians. Another contribution to Canada by this group of people includes:
What is charity work?
400
A salesperson who travels from place to place selling goods.
What is a peddler?
500
Newcomers to Canada settled in areas based on these four factors.
What is arrival point? What is work? Who are friends and family? What is government initiative?
500
A feeling caused by homesteads very far apart and cold winter days.
What is isolation?
500
Because they may have come to Canada before the rest of their family, many Jamaican women were responsible for supporting their families in this manner
What is financially?
500
As a result of immigrants from this country keeping close ties with people in their home country, Canada has developed close relations with