LOCAL HISTORY Flashcards

Question

Just War

Answer 1

in order to have peace you have to fight those that threaten it

Answer 2

The human cost of battles in the Great War was immortalized in the poem “In Flanders Fields” written by Guelph-born Dr. John McCrae. Following the publication of the poem in London in Punch magazine in December of 1915, the image of blood-red red poppies amid crosses row on row caught hearts and minds among the Allied countries and in the years to follow the war the poppy became an international symbol of remembrance.

Answer 3

Wilderness adventures in British North America remained in vogue in the nineteenth century due to the Romantic Movement in England that mythologized nature in literature and travel guide books. The area’s viability as a travel destination was interrupted by the War of 1812 (1812-1815). The Niagara peninsula became a key battlefield area due to its proximity to enemy forces from the United States. Battles were fought on land and at sea in the Maritimes, Lower Canada, and Upper Canada.

Answer 4

Rachel Hope Cleves notes that the war has become entwined with Canadian mythology related to nationhood and the current efforts to redefine Canada as a country with a strong military heritage. She submits that avid public interests in the War of 1812 encouraged Prime Minister Harper to “allocate $11.5 million to commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of the war”

Answer 5

Secord’s valour was sometimes minimized by later generations who did not realize the risk she took or the rugged Niagara terrain she traversed for twenty miles to take the overheard plans of the American occupiers of her farm near Queenston to British officials at Beaver Dams while her family remained in the farmhouse with the American interlopers.

Answer 6

Speaking German, subscribing to German language publications, and attending Lutheran churches where German was spoken from the pulpit raised suspicion of disloyalty to Canada and the British Empire. Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, the forerunner of Wilfrid Laurier University, was scrutinized by locals and federal officials. Censors monitored newspapers published in German and later forced them to shut down. Language schools operated by Germans to keep the younger generations fluent in the German language became illegal. Suspected signs of disloyalty to the war effort were fodder for the press and the federal government urged the non-German citizenry to be vigilant for signs of subversive behavior in the city and surrounding farm country. The pacifism of the local Mennonite communities was also questioned as the war continued. any enemy aliens deemed potential subversives were arrested and sent to the 24 detention camps established across the nation by federal authorities.

Answer 7

The Great Depression The containment of venereal diseases, continuing high maternal and infant mortality rates and the widespread deprivation faced by Canadian families during the Great Depression all contributed to new, vocal support for birth control and family planning. First, law enforcement chose to ignore the activities of Dr. Carrie Bagshaw who distributed birth control information and devices from the first Canadian family planning clinic, established in Hamilton, Ontario in 1932. Second, in 1936 a nurse named Dorothea Palmer was acquitted of charges related to the distributing of contraceptive devices to the working-class Catholic women of Eastview near Ottawa, Ontario. Kaufman is remembered as a controversial philanthropist who challenged the status quo and won Kitchener the distinction of being in the vanguard of family planning in Canada.

Answer 8

By focusing on their mennonite history

Answer 9

East Immigration began on the east side of the county. Early arrivals in Erin, Eramosa, and Garafraxa were predominately Loyalists, or sons and daughters of Loyalists, or served during the War of 1812. Niagara area

Answer 10

Allan notes that the first white settler came to Elora in 1817 to build a dam and sawmill on behalf of land owner General Pilkington. Roswell Newcomer was a Welsh carpenter and millwright who came to Upper Canada from the United States

Answer 11

History of Elora | Local historian Roberta Allan

Answer 12

Charles Allan In 1842 Alan entered partnership with Alexander Watt and James and Arthur Ross who were fellow Scots living in Fergus. They purchased water rights on the Grand River and adjacent lands to build a dam, sawmill, and the bridge to span the river contracted to Foote and Cattanach that is reputed to be the first cantilever bridge in America

Answer 13

the earliest history of the settlement was the story of Black Loyalists led by Richard Pierpoint who received settlement grants for military service in the War of 1812. Known as the Pierpoint Settlement, the lands in West Garafraxa granted to these Black settlers in 1821 were located where Jones’ Base Line now crosses the Grand River in modern day Fergus

Answer 14

Richard Pierpoint is the slave name given to a young man born about 1744 in Bondou, Senagal. He was captured by slave traders and transported to the American colonies where he was purchased by a British Officer stationed in New York. During the American Revolution, or War for Independence, Pierpoint joined dozens of Africans who fought with Loyalists in Butler’s Rangers. He came north as a Loyalist refugee after the war and accepted a 200 acre land grant near St. Catharines. Pierpoint organized a Black unit to defend Upper Canada during the War of 1812 and at age 60 he served in the unit under the command of white officers. His land claim for service rendered during the War of 1812 brought him to West Garafraxa to found the Pierpoint Settlement. After completing his settlement obligations, Pierpoint was granted full title to his land in 1826 Petition for an all Black unit in the war of 1812

Answer 15

John Galt in 1827

Answer 16

ccording to Ward, there were three waves of anti-Japanese sentiment in BC prior their evacuation from the coast and the internment (detention) of Japanese residents of all ages as enemy aliens during World War II. Ward dates the resurgence of anti-Japanese at 1937-38, 1940, and 1941-42 (Ward, p. 142). Japan allied with Germany during the war and Vancouverites joined other non-Japanese residents on the coast in the fear that Japanese residents were a threat to national security. An apology for the interment was given by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney on September 22, 1988, surviving internees were awarded $21, 000 in compensation and those who were deported to Japan had their Canadian citizenship reinstated

Answer 17

In 1997 the findings were presented in Youth and History where a key finding was that those surveyed preferred family history to political and other more traditional forms of history taught in school (p. 18)

Answer 18

If fewer males than females are born over the generations, the surname becomes less significant within a region’s population or across the nation. Also, a lack of consistency in spelling slows research and strategies are needed to address the complications faced by the researcher.

Answer 19

Four tracts of land had their protected status rescinded by the Alberta government and they included Touchwood, Marlboro, Cold Lake and Wolf Lake [Métis Settlements, Canadian Encyclopedia online]. On the eighth protected grants a vibrant culture has endured: “jigging, a favourite form of dance, mixes the reels of Scotland and France with the chicken dance of the Cree. A distinct Métis language called Michif (combining Cree, French and English words) is still spoken.

Answer 20

The war brides were women who married Canadian servicemen during or shortly after the war and many arrived with infants or children. Roughly 40.000 war brides came to Canada to start new lives. They were followed shortly by refugees from war-torn Europe where starvation, inadequate housing and unemployment were obstacles to post-war recovery. Officially known as displaced persons, they were more commonly known in Canada as “DPs”.

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