Readings and Slides

Question 1

Week 2 Readings: Can Hist. and Land Bridge

Answer 1

• Focusing on Canadian Hist. before confederation,
• Indigenous and the use of it from a self-identifier vs Indian/ First Nation
• Land Bridge Theory and importance of Indigenous understanding (story to tell truth)

Question 2

Week 3: Colonialism+Confed. and Aboriginal Hist.

Answer 2

• Difficulties in converting
• Women bias getting better position in Canada, men gets “demoted”
• Relations generally getting better about integrating into society but still an act of pretense of wanting to convert?

Question 3

Week 4: Slave Life In PEI

Answer 3

• Used references from all over NA to contextualize
• Smaller close knit families, less slaves, close living quarters, “Family Slavery”
• Allowed Baptism but not freedom

Question 4

Week 5: First Peoples and Schooling

Answer 4

• conversion of eurocentric views on education failed to consider Indig. agency
• tried to establish them into society but lower positions
• lack of consideration on the children’s behalf when it came to teaching Philosophy/ reports of Jesuit missions/ reports

Question 5

Week 6: Riel Address

Answer 5

• Justified through the irresponsibility of the Gov.
• North west his mother, mother land, care for the community
• reasonable in sense defence, Gov. is insane

Question 6

Week 7: Rebellion or Rev.

Question 7

Week 9: Debating Confederation

Answer 7

• Military advantage (if they were attacked by the south)
• Invaded for resources
• practicality (identity as a state)

Question 8

Week 10: Commission and Labour

Answer 8

• apprenticeships (some liked them some did not) (dress maker, investment to leave)
• unions beginning to fight for rights

Question 9

Week 2 Slides: Terms for Indigenous people

Answer 9

• Indigenous: originate from place (UNDRIP)
• Aboriginals: first inhabitants of Canada
• Native (Considered outdated in Canada)
• Indian (Legal Term)
• Metis (Mix)
• Inuit: far north not first native bc ancestry

Question 10

Week 2 Diversity: Economic

Answer 10

Agriculture, Fishing, Hunters and Gathering

Question 11

Week 2 Diversity: Culture

Answer 11

Large village vs smaller mobile units
- spirituality and cosmologies
- matrilinieal and matrilocal

Question 12

Common Elements of NA Indig. societies

Answer 12

• Tech.
• Gender and familys
• Land and wealth
• trade
• proto-contact

Question 13

Week 2: Agriculture

Answer 13

• Three sisters Beans, Corn, Squash
  -Tabacco
• Wild Rice
• Potatos
• Herbs, mushrooms, Berries, Ginseng
• Bison/ Caribou ruined agric.

Question 14

Week 2: Common Elements of 17th C colonies in NA

Answer 14

• Desire for overland route
• Emphasis on wealth through trade
• European arrogance about cultural superiority and claims to land
• Planters (seigneurs) local authorical, economic dev during immigration
• slow establishment of family/ presence of women
• uneven dev. (chaotic pol. conflict)
• conflict from Europe transferred over

Question 15

Week 2: Doctrine of Discovery

Answer 15

• Barbarous nations to be overhthrown and brought to faith itself

Question 16

Week 4 Economic Growth in 1700s/ 18th C

Answer 16

• Population Growth (Immigration Men, Fill du Roi)
• Export
• International Economy

Question 17

Week 4: Why so few people in New France

Answer 17

• poor image of living in New France (natives/ barbarous)
• relutance
• restrictive emigration policy
• Jewish and Protestants not initially allowed

Question 18

Political System: Difficulties

Answer 18

• self opposed (no local influence)
• Seigneur system (hire people to work on land)
• hard to communicate to France (hard to impose authority)

Question 19

Week 4: Main idea

Answer 19

• Slow growth as a nation

Question 20

Week 6: John Graves Simcoe

Answer 20

• Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada
• Act against slavery (made enslaving illegal)
• government institutions suck as trial by jury, Built roads, consolidated treaties with Indigenous

Question 21

Week 6: Staples in economy in British NA

Answer 21

• Merchants, Crafts people, Taverns,
• Fish
• Fur
• timber
• wheat
• land policy
• mercantilism continued until 1850 with corn law revoked

Question 22

Week 6: Households and Hierarchies

Answer 22

• Households as the major unit of labor production and reproduction
• land as the basic of most settler families
• hierarchies of gender - property ownership, divorce, voting rights
• hierarchies of class - elites ersus the productive classes
• Hierachies of race

Question 23

Week 6 Conclusion: Settler Colonialism in British NA

Answer 23

• process not event
• pivotal shift to making more land
• settlers often displaced themselves
• had a desire for property/ land even if they did not find it in the definition of being British

Question 24

Week 6: Reform in political reforms

Answer 24

• previously settlers under legislative council
• now settlers vote into elected assembly who can get into executive council

Question 25

Week 6: Words to use

Answer 25

• Rebellion (violence), Uprising (resistance), Civil disobedience (refusal to comply)
• Rebel (person who opposed/ arm resisted gov.), Patriot (person who supports their country)

Question 26

Week 6: Durham Report

Answer 26

• Political reform
• assimilation of French Canadians
• I found struggle not of principle but of race

Question 27

Week 8: Fur as commodity

Answer 27

• expanded from east to west
• half of trade was dominated by fur (Nortwest 19th)

Question 28

Week 9: Causes for Confed.

Answer 28

• American Threats
• economic integration (cost of facilities, remove internal terrifs)
• No common identity (coasts and central idea)
• ## Solve Indig “problem”

Question 29

Week 9: Minorities and Confederation

Answer 29

• Not protected, invited to confed.
• McDonald, Rich are minority

Question 30

Week 11: Working conditions

Answer 30

• long hours, no insurance, no security, no compensation
  -child and female labour
• challenge to sexual division of labour

Question 31

Week 11: Moral Regulation Movement

Answer 31

• practice of governing in order to influence the conduct of how people govern themselves
• Imporving social env. > society would become better
• pushing for reforms (working, conditions, lvigin conditions, sex trade workers)

Question 32

Week 11: Source of all evil (Alcohol)

Answer 32

• class identity
• pledge cards (to abstain)