Early Canada

Question 1

What happened in 1867

Answer 1

Canada became a new country

Question 2

What happened in 1870?

Answer 2

Manitoba became and province

Question 3

What happened in 1870

Answer 3

The Northwest Territories were created

Question 4

What happened 1871

Answer 4

British Colombia joined Canada

Question 5

What happened in 1873

Answer 5

P.E.I joined Canada

Question 6

What happened in 1885

Answer 6

The Canadian Pacific Railway was completed and the North West rebellion occured

Question 7

What happened in 1898

Answer 7

European immigration to Canada rapidly increased because of the Minister of Interior (Clifford Sifton)’s choice to allow farmers with darker skin in.

Question 8

What happened in 1905

Answer 8

Alberta and Saskatchewan joined Canada

Question 9

What happened in 1949

Answer 9

Newfoundland joined Canada

Question 10

What happened in 1965

Answer 10

The maple leaf was chosen for Canada’s flag

Question 11

What happened in 1971

Answer 11

The Multiculturalism Policy developed

Question 12

What happened in 1968

Answer 12

The Official Languages Act was passed

Question 13

What happened in 1982

Answer 13

The Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms was passed by Pierre Elliot Trudeau

Question 14

What happened in 1999

Answer 14

Nunavut became a Territory

Question 15

What happened 2003

Answer 15

The most recent Youth Criminal Justice Act was passed

Question 16

What 4 provinces first joined in confederation

Answer 16

Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia

Question 17

Which 3 countries did most of the “invited” settlers come from before the doors were opened

Answer 17

France, Britian and U.S.

Question 18

Define ‘selective immigration’

Answer 18

To be select or restrict who is allowed into their country

Question 19

Define Nationalisim

Answer 19

A belief that one’s own country is superior to all others

Question 20

Define prejudice

Answer 20

Making prejudgements about others before getting to actually know them

Question 21

Define migrate

Answer 21

To leave one’s own country to search for another one to settle in

Question 22

Define immigrate

Answer 22

To come to live permanently in another couintry

Question 23

Define emigrate

Answer 23

To move from one’s own country to settle in another

Question 24

Define material culture

Answer 24

The physical objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture.

Question 25

Define multiculturalism

Answer 25

many cultures coexisting

Question 26

Define assimilation

Answer 26

The cultural absorption of a minority group into a majority cultural group

Question 27

What was Clifford Sifton’s part in helping Canada secure the prairie lands from the U.S.

Answer 27

He ‘opened the doors’ to allow eastern europeans into Canada ex) Ukrainians, Italians, etc

Question 28

What 2 things did Canada have to do do secure the prairies in the British traditional way

Answer 28

1. build a permanent settlement

2. have government prescense

Question 29

What were the 5 requirements of the Dominion Lands Act

Answer 29

1. a $10 administration fee
2. Any male farmer who was at least 21 years of age
3. agreed to cultivate at least 30 acres (16 ha)
4. build a permanent dwelling on it
5. Live there for 3 years

Question 30

What did the Canadian Government do to prepare the western prairie land

Answer 30

1. Created Homelands Act
2. Extinguished any Aboriginal land acts and forced them onto reserves
3. They sent out surveyors to split up the land
4. They made the metis mad

Question 31

Define Kanata/Canada

Answer 31

Village

Question 32

Define accommodation

Answer 32

an arrangement or compromise

Question 33

Define inclusion

Answer 33

to be included in something or invite others to be included

Question 34

Define exclusion

Answer 34

To keep certain things out of certain groups

Question 35

What were 2 types of unintended harm that arose because of how residential schools were run.

Answer 35

1. since they didn’t get to see their family often they never got to see how normal family life was
2. There was physical, emotional, and sexual abuse.