chp.11 encourging immagration

Question 1

in 1881 what was the percent of British or French

Canadians?

Answer 1

89 percent :)

Question 2

What did Laurier need?

Answer 2

people, Laurier could not build a thriving country without

more people

Question 3

how many immigrants were there in the 1890’s?

Answer 3

75,067 ;)

Question 4

Laurier succeeded in bringing more
people to Canada, as you can see in Figure
11.2. How did he do it?

Answer 4

posters/newspapers
speakers (they sent over seas)
doubling the railway track
cheaper for transportation
free land

Question 5

how did some railway companies make big money?

Answer 5

they sold some of their land.

Question 6

The person in charge of immigration to

Canada was?

Answer 6

Clifford Sifton.

Question 7

Sifton was a Member of Parliament from ________.

Answer 7

Manitoba

Question 8

Sifton sent advertisements to three regions.

what were they?

Answer 8

P.S you just need to know the names the other part is optional

• The United States. American farmers
knew how to farm on the prairies. By the
1890s, though, the United States was
running out of good farmland. The ads
sent there called Western Canada “the
last, best West.”
• Great Britain. Most Canadians were of
British origin. Some of them wanted
other Britons to move here. They thought
this would strengthen the British
character of the country.
• Eastern Europe. Sifton believed that
farmers from Eastern Europe were ideal
settlers for the prairies. They were
experienced at growing crops. They
would put up with the hardships of
pioneer life. He also believed they would
assimilate to English culture.

P.S you just need to know the names the other part is optional

Question 9

For many immigrants, the move to the West was
“a trap.”
Why?!?

Answer 9

Life here was much harder than the advertisements had led them to believe. When homesteaders arrived in the
West, they needed to build shelter before winter. On much of the prairie there are few trees, so most newcomers made sod houses. These were made of slabs of soil, grass, and grass roots cut from the prairie. After a downpour, it would continue to “rain” inside for days. Only later, when they had more money and time, did homesteaders build more permanent,
wood-frame houses. Few had money to pay for the trip back home.

Question 10

what is a pull?

Answer 10

something that makes you want to leave your home

(positive) ex: free land in Canada

Question 11

what is a push?

Answer 11

something that makes you leave your home

(Negative) ex: terrible government

Question 12

emigrating

Answer 12

leaving your home

Question 13

immigration

Answer 13

going to a new home

Question 14

Why were Canada’s new immigrants looking for a place
where they could make a better life? For many, the conditions in their homelands made them want to leave. The factors that push people to leave their homelands are called push factors. The newcomers to the West were affected by a variety of push factors. what are the main ones.

Answer 14

• Population growth. Europe was going
through a dramatic increase in population.
There were not enough jobs for everyone.
There was not enough land to farm.
• Religious persecution. A persecuted
person is one who is treated badly
because of his or her beliefs. Several
groups of people in Eastern Europe were
persecuted for their religious beliefs.

• Political persecution. Several groups of
people were persecuted for their political
beliefs.
• Natural disaster. Famine, such as the
Irish potato famine of 1847 (which you
read about in Chapter 6), can lead people
to leave their homes.
• Affordable travel. Steamships made
voyages shorter and cheaper. After 1896,
a worldwide economic depression drew
to a close. With the return of better times,
people could afford to move.

Question 15

why did people immigrate to Canada?

Answer 15

• Free land. Everyone could afford the
inexpensive, plentiful land offered in
Western Canada.
• Jobs. The developing West needed
shopkeepers, coal miners, school
teachers, and so on.
• Completed railway. Immigrants who
became Western farmers would be able
to sell their grain in Eastern markets.
• Better machinery. Farms produced more
crops with better farm machinery.
• Improved farming techniques. Newly
developed kinds of wheat were better
suited to the prairie climate.
• Growing demand for wheat. As the
demand for wheat grew, so did the price.
A wheat-farming family could do well.
• Religious and political freedom. Canada
allowed people to hold their beliefs.
• Friends and family. Some people chose
Canada to be close to friends and family
already here.

Question 16

Anglican Church leaders helped many
British Anglicans come to Canada. (The
Anglican Church is the Church of England.)
One of these leaders was a Canadian-born
Anglican minister named Isaac Barr. In
1902, he placed an ad in British
newspapers. It called for people who
wanted to go to Canada. Barr thought that the Canadian West should be filled with
English-speaking Anglicans. He thought this
would strengthen its “British” character. His
advertisement said, “Let us take possession
of Canada. Let our cry be ‘______ ___ ___ _______.’ ”

Answer 16

Canada for the British.’ ”

Question 17

Hutterites are pacifists.

true or false

Answer 17

true

Question 18

Between 1867 and 1924, 100 000 British
children were sent to Canada. They
travelled on ships and by train, sometimes
all on their own. They hoped to join
Canadian families.

Two types of groups set up these
ventures:

Answer 18

• religious organizations—for example, the
Church of England Waifs and Strays
Society
• charitable organizations—for example, the
Society for the Suppression of Juvenile
Vagrancy

Question 19

Many Canadiens went west as
missionaries. The Sisters of Charity are a
good example. They are better known as
the ______ ______ (Grey Nuns).

Answer 19

Soeurs Grises.