CHC2D ~ Canadian History



CHC2D ~ Canadian History

“1900-1913”

IMMIGRATION

✓ Late 1800s, Canadian government was anxious to settle the west

✓ 1896 – PM Laurier and minister of Interior Clifford Sifton introduced an ______________________________

✓ A good time to increase immigration:

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WHY CANADA?

✓ Government promoted Canada – massive _____________________________________

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✓ Pre 1901 – _____________________________________________________________________

✓ Post 1901 – ____________________________________________________________________

✓ _______________________________________________________________________________

✓ Sifton wanted _________________________________________________________________

✓ By ______, a large number of immigrants began moving _________________________

|PUSH FACTORS |PULL FACTORS |

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CONTRIBUTIONS OF IMMIGRANTS

✓ Growing workforce and population increase

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o Established ____________________________ across the countryside

o Took __________________________________________ jobs

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o Lay streetcar tracks, dug sewers, textiles, seasonal work (mining, logging, railway…)

o Saskatchewan and Alberta _______________________

o ________________ popped up everywhere – greater ___________________________

o By 1911, ________ of west were ____________________

“Immigrants played an important part in Canada’s rising economic prosperity and development.”

IMMIGRATION DISCRIMINATION

✓ Wanted: __________________________________________________________________________

✓ Discouraged many groups: _________________________________________________________ are some examples.

o Thought they wouldn’t make _________________________ and wouldn’t _______________________________________

✓ British Canadians believed in __________________________________ –> immigrants should ____________________________ their cultural traditions

✓ ______________________________ worried that the addition of other groups would lessen their rights

URBANIZATION

✓ New farm machinery meant ________________________ needed so many moved to the ____________________ to work in the new factories

✓ Between 1901 – 1911, Canada’s urban population __________________. 1._____________, 2.___________________, 3._____________________, and 4.________________ all had over 100,000

✓ Cities formed ___________________________________.

✓ Workers rented homes in the city – landlords didn’t maintain buildings

✓ Wealthy moved ____________________ away from the _______________________________ crowded industrial areas, train tracks…

✓ _______________________, _____________________, _________________ transformed the city

INEQUALITIES

✓ Wide gap between ____________ and ___________________

✓ Casa Loma vs. crowded basement rooms with minimal sanitation or ventilation

✓ Up to half of urban workers lived ___________________________________________

✓ No social assistance (workmen’s compensation, unemployment insurance, pension plans…) so many immigrant groups formed _______________________________.

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