Starting Off
Getting There
Farming
Towns and Cities
Communities in the West
100
Where did people settle?
The west.
100
How did people travel there?
By train and boat.
100
True or False. There were problems wherever you went in the prairies?
True.
100
True or false At almost every station a town would be created?
True.
100
How many communities were there in the west?
Five.
200
What was the tag line for the west?
The last best west.
200
When could they use the shelter?
At night.
200
What made everything easier for farmers?
Technology.
200
What was the distance between each station?
12 to 16 km.
200
What is an ethnocultural community?
People in an ethnocultural community sahre the same language and culture.
300
What was very expensive?
Wood.
300
After getting off the train what did most people become?
Homesteaders.
300
After what year did a lot of jobs come up?
1900.
300
What town was very multicultural?
Winnipeg.
300
Name 3 of the 5 communities in the west?
Ukrainians, Doukhobors, African Americans, British, and School.
400
What was the name of the travelling exhibit?
Girl from Canada.
400
Fill in the blanks They docked in _________ and traveled by train to ________
Halifax and Winnipeg.
400
Name 3 out of the 5 main jobs farmers had to do?
Put up shelter, break the land, plant crops, wait for crops to grow, and ship for sale.
400
What did the towns include?
Hotels, newspapers, churches, schools, and other businesses
400
Where did the doukhobors come from and what religion did they preach?
Russia and Christian.
500
Fill in the blanks In _____ years the population grew ___________.
40 years and 1,850,000.
500
What is the definition of homesteading?
Building their own home and growing their own crops.
500
Fill in the blanks In _____, only __ out of __ families were still homesteading.
1931, 2 and 5
500
What town grew and became the what largest city?
Winnipeg and was the third largest city
500
When and where did the Ukrainians first settle?
In 1896 in Manitoba.
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