Push & Pull Factors
This pull factor made farming economically attractive in Canada.
What is demand for wheat?/crops?
Name TWO specific methods the government used to promote immigration globally.
What are posters/pamphlets, foreign journalists, speakers, or agents overseas?
An agreement between First Nations and the Canadian government.
What is a treaty?
The language that became dominant despite Canada’s bilingual promises.
What is English?
The type of farming Eastern Europeans became known for in Canada.
What is wheat farming?
This push factor involved discrimination based on religion or beliefs.
What is religious persecution?
This group was deliberately NOT targeted for westward migration, revealing bias in policy.
Who are Francophones?
The system designed to remove Indigenous children from their culture.
What are residential schools?
A term describing a society made up of many cultures.
What is multicultural or pluralistic?
The group that played a major role in building the CPR.
Who are Chinese immigrants?
A pull factor that made it easier to transport goods and people across Canada.
What is the railway?
This goal shows bias: strengthening this cultural identity in Canada.
What is British identity?
The process of forcing a minority culture to adopt the dominant one.
What is assimilation?
The group whose language rights were reduced by government decisions.
Who are Francophone Catholics?
A tax placed specifically on Chinese immigrants entering Canada.
What is the head tax?
This factor pushed people out of Europe due to lack of land and jobs.
What is population growth?
This policy aimed to populate the West, build a railway, and grow the economy.
What is the National Policy?
The government’s primary goal in negotiating treaties.
What is control of land and resources?
The percentage of Western Canadians born outside Canada by 1911.
What is over 80%?
A group known for communal living and refusal to fight in wars.
Who are Hutterites?
A pull factor based on access to new tools and improved productivity.
What are improved farming techniques or machinery?
Explain one bias in Clifford Sifton’s immigration policy based on who he targeted.
What is preference for British/English-speaking/ “ideal farmers"?
The differing interpretation of treaties between First Nations and the government.
What is sharing land versus owning land?
This article of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects denominational, separate, or dissentient school rights.
What is article 29.
The highest that this tax for Chinese to enter reached before Canada banned entry entirely.
What is $500?