National Policy

Question 1

What are the 3 prongs of the national policy

Answer 1

Transportation
Immigration
Economy

Question 2

What did we want for tranportation

Answer 2

We wanted a railway for Canada to go across the continent

Question 3

What did we want for Immigration

Answer 3

We wanted people to come from other countries to populate Canada

Question 4

What did we want for Economy

Answer 4

We wanted to make the economy strong

Question 5

Why did the government of Canada want to build a transcontinental railway

Answer 5

1. To bring B.C into confederation

2. Keep Americans out of the west

Question 6

Why did they pick the southern route for the railway

Answer 6

1. Flat land (cheaper)
2. Coal deposits fuels the train
3. Close to the border, take instead of American train
4. Already owned most of the land
5. Immigrants would’ve found better jobs for farming areas

Question 7

Explain where the southern and northern route took you in the railway

Answer 7

Southern: From Québec through the bottom of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and B.C
Northern: Through the bottom of Quebec and Manitoba and gradually moves up through Alberta and Saskatchewan getting to the mountains in B.C

Question 8

How did the Canadians government negotiate with the First Nations

Answer 8

They promised them farming tools and signed a treaty but never got the stuff to this day
They didn’t even want farming tools they hunted

Question 9

What were some challenges of building the railway in B.C

Answer 9

people would build in different areas that don’t connect
Build along steep canyons and dark tunnels
Workers died in rock slides, falls and explosions

Question 10

What challenges did workers face in the prairies building the railway

Answer 10

Workers would lay out 10km day and night
Also built along rivers
Supplies would be brought and placed on newly laid track

Question 11

What challenges did Northern Ontario face when building the railway

Answer 11

They would work in the mud
Track would fall in the mud
Blast through the rock of the Canadian Shield (rocky area is the Candiac shield)
Filled soggy muskeg

Question 12

Why were Chinese workers unprepared for the work they arrived to do

Answer 12

They were unprepared for the harsh winters

They didn’t know much about Canada coming from China

Question 13

Who mainly worked to build the transcontinental railway

Answer 13

Chinese workers

The CPR

Question 14

Why do you think Chinese workers would put themselves in danger

Answer 14

Fill in pls

Question 15

What did Laurier do to attract immigrants and what did he want

Answer 15

He wanted farmers to come so he offered two things
1. Make two railways going both ways so easier travel
Special treatment if you come to Canada

Question 16

What was discriminatory about Siftons immigration policies

Answer 16

He wanted people who spoke English and not people who spoke French
So, then there was barely any Francophones in Canada and more anglophones
Before they were even

Question 17

Push factor and examples to come to Canada

Answer 17

Pushes you to leave somewhere

1. Unhappy life
2. Wars
3. Shortage of food

Question 18

Pull factor and examples to come to Canada

Answer 18

Pulling you to come somewhere

1. Better transport
2. Better living conditions
3. Family links

Question 19

Where did most immigrants come from

Answer 19

The British empire

Question 20

What are ways the Eastern Europeans influenced Canada

Answer 20

Wheat farms
Schools
Towns
Climate
Social services
Other industries

Question 21

Who were the British Home Children

Answer 21

Came from Britian
Between 1869-1948
Britain was suffering and Marie Rye didn’t want this for kids
150k came to Canada
People thought they were orphans but just didn’t have enough money
6 months to 18 years old

Question 22

What are the aims of the immigration act

Answer 22

1. Attract skilled and educated workers
2. Reunite families
3. Fleeing persecution (refugees)
4. Allow new immigrants to become citizens

Question 23

How did the immigration act effect people

Answer 23

Asians had about 50% of the population
The rest of the 50% of the population is made of 5 groups of different people
Asian have big families attracting more of them

Question 24

What does the official languages act guarantee

Answer 24

1. Bilingualism in the government

2. Opportunities to be bilingual

Question 25

What is the Chinese head tax

Answer 25

Have to pay 50 dollars= 1300 to immigrate
Increased to 500 dollars = 13 000 to immigrate
Chinese exclusion act banned them
Removed in 1947 because of pressure from the world