Events Flashcards
Migration
People moving where they live
Migration and colonization (date,and factors)
National Policy was pro immigration
Quebec population grew from 1.2 million to 1.65 million
High birth rate
Many people left Quebec
Rural exodus
Rural areasoverpopulated
People moved to city to find factory jobs
Jobs were low paying
100 000s of québécois worked in factories or farms
“Push-Pull” factor in emigration
Led to creation of Franco American communities
Colonization
Church tried to get people to colonize new lands in underdeveloped Quebec
Farming brings you closer to god
Land was far from everything
Timber companies hired settlers for cheap labour
Transatlantic immigration
1000s of European immigrants. Received free land and worked it in the west
Legal and political status of women
Quebec was slower to give rights
Married women were under control of men
Obey their husband
Suffragists
Fought for womens right to vote
Women voted in 1940
First women elected to parliament was Agnes Mcphail in 1921 (Ontario)
Jobs of women
Domestics housewives nurses teachers
Women’s religious community
Women studied together and became Nuns (charity teaching and nursing)
English speaking women’s organization
Fought for women’s right to vote
Prmoted the prohibition of alcohol
Presence of Catholic Church
Preserved rights of French Canadians
Ultramontanisme
Belief that church was more important then gouvernement and laws should be based on religious laws - was against liberalism rights for women
Anticléricalisme
Liberalism led to anticlericalism (opposition to the clergy)
Nationalism of survival
Nationalism became way to make their culture survive
Denominations
Deifferent religious oups with same faith
Dualism
When two groups play opposing roles in hoe something operates
Socio Cultural Expression
Patriotic works
Patriotic works
Patriotism pride in the past and ambition for a bête future were big themes
Emergence of women’s literature
Felipe Angers. Wrote about family nation and religion
Isabella Crawford. First important female poet
Robertine Barry. First female journalist
Higher education
McGill was the first medical school
Jésuites founded college st Marie and Loyola
Anglicans founded bishops
Université de Laval became French language university
Polytechnique became engineering school
Other parts of Canada had university of Toronto and royal military college
Capitalism
Economic system characterized by private or corporation ownership of goods by investments
Industrial
Using mass production (factory)