3.6 Flashcards
What happened between Canada and Britain in terms of trade in the 1860s?
Canada lost preferential trade.
What happened between the USA and Canada’s reciprocity agreement?
It expired
When did Macdonald pass a legislation that put protective tariffs on manufactured goods? What percent were these tariffs?
1879
20-30 %
What did the tariffs protect?
The Canadian economy.
What was the role of Western Canada?
Resources! Get them and have them delivered to central Canada.
What was the role of Central Canada?
Factory production, manufacturing, financial centre of Canada; Corporate and banking institutions located there.
What was the role of the Maritimes?
Provide fish and agricultural products. Base for intrnation trade and defence.
Why did many large employers in the maritimes go out of business?
Because wooden ships became extince and many of their companies did not have the manufacturing capacity to build ocean liners
Prairie farmers had to____expensive and____cheap.
Buy
Sell
What was the problem with tariffs for prairie farmer?
Central Canada manufactured products, like stoves, and put tarrifs on them to encourage Canadians to buy Canadian. However, there were not protective tariffs on products like grain and barley and so farmers had to compete on their own agains the world market which drastically reducted the amount they could sel the grain for.
What was the population of the west by 1891?
Only 250 000
What are the three points of Western Alienation?
1) Western farmers paid extremely high freight rates to the CPR
2) Unfair protective tariffs
3) little political clout (Ontario had the most political seats because of population)
What question dominated federal politics and threatened to rip apart Canada?
The Manitoba Schools Question
What was the Manitoba Schools Act? Why was it a problem?
It cut money for the roman catholic schools and made all schools english speaking. The Manitoba Act of 1870 had the French speakers promised sperate schools.
What was Laurier’s solution to the Manitoba Schools Act in 1896?
He said that they had to provide 30 minutes of religious instruction everyday and a french teacher would have to be provided in every school with more than 10 french students.
Why was Laurier’s reign knows as Sunny Ways?
Because he had a knack for making compromise to resolve contentious issues.
Was Canada as industralized as other countries?
No