Category 1
List 4 places where immigrants tended to settle over the years
1.Arrival point 2.Where they worked 3.Friends and family 4.The prairies
What made it easier to have a busy social life for the Jewish settlers when compared to the Polish homesteaders?
Polish homesteaders lived far apart and felt isolated from each other. Jewish settlers formed or joined landsmannschaften, clubs of people from the same village.
Did Chinese railway workers earn the same money as the European workers?
No, they got paid less money than Europeans.
what was head tax?
It's a fee Chinese immigrants had to pay to enter Canada.
Were most Jamaicans Catholic? If not, what religion were they?
Most were protestants.
Montreal, Quebec
What did peddlers do?
Peddlers visited areas that were far from stores to sell goods.
How many workers who built the Canadian Pacific Railway were Chinese?
20,000 or 2/3
Did Chinese immigrants live in settlements? Explain why or why not.
No, they were able to move around freely from place to place.
In the 1700s and 1800s, how did early settlers arrive at the prairies?
They arrived in Kayaks.
What is pier 21?
The gateway to Canada (where people can enter Canada from)
What work did the Jewish newcomers find to raise money? (3 answers)
1.Tailors 2.Storekeepers 3. Peddlers
Once the Chinese workers were no longer needed, what did the Canadian government introduced and why?
The government introduced head tax. The government wanted Chinese people to pay to live in Canada.
Define assimilate.
Becoming part of or adjust to existing within a larger group.
Where did the early settlers make their homes?
They made them near trading post such as fort garry, Manitoba, fort Edmonton, and Alberta.
Define Anti-Semitism
Hatred of Jewish people
How did polish immigrants contribute to Canada's prairies?
They cleared land and ran farms in western Canada.
How many first nations people lived on the prairies in 1867?
35,000
Why did about 7,000 Mennonites leave Canada for Mexico between 1920-1927?
They left because they had problems with the Canadian government. They did not want to fight in wars or send their children to public schools.
Compare and contrast Polish settlers and Jewish settlers.
polish=just men worked and girls and boys helped clear land and cared for crops and livestock
Jewish=both men and women worked and both parents made and sold clothes
Same=Children had to help out and wives and daughters cooked and cleaned
Where did the first Chinese immigrants settle in Canada?
Nootka Sound, British Columbia
What did the Canadian government do in 2006?
The government apologized for making Chinese immigrants pay head tax.
what year did a large influx of jamaicans (57,000) immigrated to Canada? Where did they live?
The year=1970-1979
They lived in Toronto.