Chapter 2.4: Migration Flows

Question 1

Who was Clifford Sifton?

Answer 1

1896’s Minister of Interior, makes it his goal to increase # of farmers in the prairies

Question 2

How does Sifton increase immigration to the prairies?

Answer 2

Major advertising campaigns in Eastern Europe (Hungary, Ukraine, Poland, Romania) and to Anglo-Saxons whose culture was similar to Canadians

Question 3

Two groups of people not welcome in Canada

Answer 3

Africans and Asians

Question 4

How does Sifton’s successor, Frank Oliver, change immigration policies?

Answer 4

Believing ethnicity was more important than professional experience, makes it hard for unwanted immigrants to enter.

Question 5

What are Minister of Interior Oliver’s new immigration policies?

Answer 5

• Undesirable immigrants list (disabled, mentally ill, criminals, prostitutes, epileptics, blind, poor)
• Gov could refuse any arbitrarily
• Clear procedure put in place to deport them

Question 6

What is the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885?

Answer 6

$50 head tax, increases to $200 in 1899 (two years salary)

Question 7

Describe xenophobia in the late 19th century

Answer 7

Canadians believed their jobs would be stolen by foreigners and thought them too slow to assimilate into Canadian culture