Definitions
An official count of the population including information such as gender, age, religion and ethnic origin.
What is a Census?
Who are Eligible Voters?
These people came over during the Potato Famine in their home country
Who are the Irish?
Usually run out of a church, this is where children were sent to learn until they had to take up house chores
What is school?
This population was created when French fur traders took Indigenous/First Nations wives
Who are the Metis?
Any person who is chosen by a higher authority to fill a position in the government.
What is Appointed?
One individual appointed by the Crown
Who is the Governor?
Many came to British North America because it had made slavery illegal in 1833
Who are the America Slaves?
This place was the entertainment hub of the week
What is Church on Sunday?
This even brought many Europeans across the ocean into Canada in the 1800s due to poverty and food shortages
What is the Great Migration
Any person who is voted in by the people in order to fill a position in the government
What is Elected?
This person is either born into their position, or inherits it.
Who is the Crown?
These people made of the vast majority of British North America
Who are the British?
This appliance was used every day to heat the house and cook
What is a wood stove?
This network brought runaway slaves through from the United States
What was the Underground Railroad
A system of government in which the whole population give power to one representative to make decisions on their behalf through elections and votes.
What is Democracy?
80-something men voted into office by the eligible voters of the population
Who are the Legislative Assembly?
Pushed to the edges of society, this population lived predominantly in Rupert's Land
Who were the Indigenous/First Nations people?
The people of the 1800s did NOT have this convenience in their houses (think laundry)
What is indoor plumbing?
A system where humans are classified as a higher role above the other according to authority.
What is a Hierarchy?
9 to 13 men appointed by the Governor
Who is the Executive Council?
Not really a fan of the British, this population lived mainly in Canada East
Who are the French?