What Was Life Like for Polish and Jewish Immigrants in 1800-1900? HISTORY..
This is called ___ when they received free or inexpensive land from the government
Homesteaders
Who did children live with, in the homesteads in Canada
Parents and Grandparents
What Religion were most Polish Immigrants
Catholic
What ethnicity AND gender predominantly built the Canadian Pacific Railway?
Chinese men
Buffalo
Why did many Jewish people leave their homes in Europe to come to Canada?
Anti-Semitism, prejudice, hatred towards Jewish people
Who took on the responsibility of household tasks in POLISH families (cooking, cleaning, sewing)
Grandmothers and Wives
What was the first building established in Jewish communites?
Where did the workers live while they were building the Railway?
Cold, drafty tents pitched alongside the railway tracks
This disease turned into an epidemic, unfortunately killing many First Nation Peoples
Smallpox
Forestry and Mining
Husbands and Wives
What was the name of the first Polish Church in Western Canada called?
Holy Ghost Parish
_____ was a fee that Chinese immigrants had to pay to enter Canada. (HINT: Canada later apologized many years later)
A head tax
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Many First Nation Peoples believed that _____ are binding and built on trust and hounor.
Treaties
Roughly (+/- 200), how many Jewish People lived in Montreal in 1901
6975
13 years old.
When was the Sabbath celebrated in Jewish communities
Friday to Sunday
This was the cost of a head tax in the year 1903
$500
Treaties that were signed between the Government and First Nation Peoples were often written in who's point of view?
The Canadian Government.