Readings and Slides Flashcards
Week 2 Readings: Can Hist. and Land Bridge
- 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)
Week 3: Colonialism+Confed. and Aboriginal Hist.
- 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?
Week 4: Slave Life In PEI
- Used references from all over NA to contextualize
- Smaller close knit families, less slaves, close living quarters, “Family Slavery”
- Allowed Baptism but not freedom
Week 5: First Peoples and Schooling
- 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
Week 6: Riel Address
- Justified through the irresponsibility of the Gov.
- North west his mother, mother land, care for the community
- reasonable in sense defence, Gov. is insane
Week 7: Rebellion or Rev.
Week 9: Debating Confederation
- Military advantage (if they were attacked by the south)
- Invaded for resources
- practicality (identity as a state)
Week 10: Commission and Labour
- apprenticeships (some liked them some did not) (dress maker, investment to leave)
- unions beginning to fight for rights
Week 2 Slides: Terms for Indigenous people
- 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- Native (Considered outdated in Canada)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
Week 2 Diversity: Economic
Agriculture, Fishing, Hunters and Gathering
Week 2 Diversity: Culture
Large village vs smaller mobile units
- spirituality and cosmologies
- matrilinieal and matrilocal
Common Elements of NA Indig. societies
- Tech.
- Gender and familys
- Land and wealth
- trade
- proto-contact
Week 2: Agriculture
- Three sisters Beans, Corn, Squash
-Tabacco - Wild Rice
- Potatos
- Herbs, mushrooms, Berries, Ginseng
- Bison/ Caribou ruined agric.
Week 2: Common Elements of 17th C colonies in NA
- 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
Week 2: Doctrine of Discovery
- Barbarous nations to be overhthrown and brought to faith itself
Week 4 Economic Growth in 1700s/ 18th C
- Population Growth (Immigration Men, Fill du Roi)
- Export
- International Economy
Week 4: Why so few people in New France
- poor image of living in New France (natives/ barbarous)
- relutance
- restrictive emigration policy
- Jewish and Protestants not initially allowed
Political System: Difficulties
- self opposed (no local influence)
- Seigneur system (hire people to work on land)
- hard to communicate to France (hard to impose authority)
Week 4: Main idea
- Slow growth as a nation
Week 6: John Graves Simcoe
- Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada
- Act against slavery (made enslaving illegal)
- government institutions suck as trial by jury, Built roads, consolidated treaties with Indigenous
Week 6: Staples in economy in British NA
- Merchants, Crafts people, Taverns,
- Fish
- Fur
- timber
- wheat
- land policy
- mercantilism continued until 1850 with corn law revoked
Week 6: Households and Hierarchies
- 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
Week 6 Conclusion: Settler Colonialism in British NA
- 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
Week 6: Reform in political reforms
- previously settlers under legislative council
- now settlers vote into elected assembly who can get into executive council
Week 6: Words to use
- Rebellion (violence), Uprising (resistance), Civil disobedience (refusal to comply)
- Rebel (person who opposed/ arm resisted gov.), Patriot (person who supports their country)
Week 6: Durham Report
- Political reform
- assimilation of French Canadians
- I found struggle not of principle but of race
Week 8: Fur as commodity
- expanded from east to west
- half of trade was dominated by fur (Nortwest 19th)
Week 9: Causes for Confed.
- American Threats
- economic integration (cost of facilities, remove internal terrifs)
- No common identity (coasts and central idea)
- ## Solve Indig “problem”
Week 9: Minorities and Confederation
- Not protected, invited to confed.
- McDonald, Rich are minority
Week 11: Working conditions
- long hours, no insurance, no security, no compensation
-child and female labour - challenge to sexual division of labour
Week 11: Moral Regulation Movement
- 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)
Week 11: Source of all evil (Alcohol)
- class identity
- pledge cards (to abstain)
