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Unfair treatment based on prejudice
Discrimination
Areas outside of towns and cities (the countryside)
Rural
This is how the government counts the people and gathers other information
Census
What was the largest city in BNA in the mid 1800s?
Montreal
Describe a typical Rural home in BNA
Small, log cabin, one room, dirt floor
A prejudice based on a person's heritage or skin colour
Racism
Urban
A class of people that has more political, economic, and social power than the majority
Elite
These were schools that were partly paid for with tax money.
Publicly Funded Schools
What types of transportation would have been used in Urban BNA?
Horse and buggy/sleigh, foot
A dislike or distrust of a person or group based on biased ideas or information
Prejudice
An outbreak of a disease that spreads very quickly in an area
epidemic
What areas made up Acadia
PEI, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia
In BNA, the elite was mostly made up of families _______________ heritage
British
Describe Health Care in Rural BNA
A territory of the home country in another part of the world
Colony
People from the U.S. who had sided with Great Britain and had come to Canada after the American Revolution
Loyalists
What was the economy in BNA based on?
The Irish tended to belong to what religion?
Catholicism (they were Catholic)
Large schools, tutors for wealthy students
A person who comes to live in a country that is not his or her original home
Immigrant
A landowner who does not live on the property, but instead lives in another country (during the mid 1800s, these people lived in England, but owned land on PEI)
Absentee Landlords
What is the English term for "Grand Derangement"?
The Expulsion
Where was the largest Metis community in BNA?
Red River Settlement
Give examples of pastimes in Rural BNA
Work bees (quilting, barn raising, etc.), Home parties