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How did Clifford Sifton get people to come to the Canadian West?
He put millions of posters in many languages around the world. They brought foreign journalists and toured the country so they could write about Canada when they got back home. They sent speakers around the world to advertise the Canadian West.
What were the three factors of the national policy?
Immigration
Economic
transportation
What was the person’s case?
The person's case was when the government officially recognized women and girls in Canada as people.
How does self-government differ between First Nations and Inuit communities?
some are run at the community level. In these, the people might run their own schools and health clinics. Other groups have wider control. In Nunavut, for example, the Inuit own 18 percent of the land and have designed a government to suit the needs of their scattered community.
Who did the government target to populate the West?
They targeted the United States because they knew how to farm and ran out of good farmland.
Great Britain because a lot of people were of British origin because they thought it would strengthen the British character
Eastern Europe believed they were ideal because they were experienced farmers and could endure the hardships of pioneer life.
True or false, the numbered treaties were good for the First Nations?
False as there were many disagreements and misunderstandings between the Canadian government and the First Nations
What was the growth in the suburbs?/
People started expanding the suburbs after cars were invented and more machines. They began making neighbourhoods and streetcars running down the roads. This helped all the shops and people be less cluttered.
Historically and politically, why is Canada a bilingual country?
Because John A. Macdonald had a very good friend who was French who asked him to make the official language of Canada French and to maintain his friendship with him and his English supporters he made French and English both official languages.
What was life in the West like?
People would build sod houses which would collapse when there was a downpour. They built them out of sod because there were few trees on the prairie.
What was Treaty Number 7?
Treaty Number 7 was a treaty between the Kainai, the Piikani, the Siksika, the Nakoda, and the Tsuu T’ina. The Canadians said that if the First Nations gave up 90,600 square km of land, they would give them yearly payments, reserve lands, hunting and fishing rights on unoccupied land, salaries for teachers, and farm equipment. What the First Nations didn’t know was that the Canadians were going to sell the land.
What are traditional roles filled by women?
The roles have changed because now women can vote and work instead of sitting at home and doing the chores at home taking care of the children and cooking. Now women have many more rights and opportunities to work and be represented.
What was the new immigration policy?
It stopped favouring immigrants from the USA and Britain and instead opened up to other countries.
Push and Pull factors of moving to the west.
Push Factors
Population growth
Europe was overpopulating so they were running out of jobs and farmland,
Religious Persecution
All religions were not supported in Europe so people may have been discriminated against.
Political Persecution
You were executed for believing in the “wrong” government.
Natural Disaster
People had to leave their homes if there was a natural disaster like a tornado, volcanic eruption, etc.
Affordable Travel
Steamships have shorter voyages and are cheaper as well.
Pull Factors
Free Land
There was good farmland that Canada could offer but there was no one there so it was all open games.
Jobs
There were lots of open jobs and as I said before there was no one there yet so they had a lot more options.
Chinese Immigration: What happened after the railways?
Some Chinese People went back to China while others stayed. The people who stayed had to find jobs and many of them worked in the food industry at restaurants, stores, selling fruits and veggies, etc. Others worked in laundry and other small businesses in the community. Laundries, coal mines, or sugar beet farms.
When did women finally get the right to vote?
When were they allowed to run for public office? between 1918 and 1917 women won the right to vote but were still not allowed to run in parliament. but in 1921 that changed when the first woman was elected to be a member of parliament, Agnes Macphail of Ontario.
What was the official language act?
It said that French and English were both official languages of Canada.
Emigrant vs immigrant
Emigrant: when you leave your home country permanently
Immigrant: when someone settles in a new country permanently
What was the Chinese head tax?
The Chinese head tax was a policy given to all chinese immigrants to try and stop them from coming to Canada. It started when every Asian/Chinese member of a family had to pay 50 dollars but over the years it grew to 500.
How did Canada determine if a prospective immigrant was suitable to settle in Canada?
hey used a points system to rate each immigrant who wanted to come to Canada. They received points on education, skills, age and wealth to rate each person who wanted to move to Canada. if they had 50 or more points they could live in Canada.
Why did people move to the city?
There were much more job opportunit