rural exodus and urbanization Flashcards
what contributed to the population movement?
industrialization and over population in rural areas of the st Laurent valley
what helped people move from the country to the city?
the rail network
how come people moved to the cities?
the factories needed workers so they would move and have a better job
explain what the working class neighbourhoods were like?
close to factories, air is polluted, places were small and dirty, created diseases
why was the public health act created?
because the working class people were in such a bad environment, people started dying quicker and earlier. so they decided to study the causes of these sicknesses and find ways to prevent them
why did many french canadian farmers move to the USA?
they were attracted to the industries there
between 1850- 1890, how many French Canadians went to the usa?
400,000
where did the French Canadians go to in the usa?
Vermont, Maine and massachusettes
why didn’t the Quebec government want francophones to emigrate to the usa?
they were worried that the francophone Catholic population would become a minority within a Canada that had a majority anglophone population
why did the government create agricultural colonization programs?
because they thought that the development of these regions would solve an unemployment problem and stop the emigration
how did the agricultural colonization programs have a negative affect on the natives?
the natives were kicked off their land and their way of life was disrupted
even after the agricultural colonization programs, why did people still go to the usa?
because clearing the land was hard, there was a harsh climate, low crops
what is agriculturalism?
it was a school of thought. they rejected the industrial world and valued farming.
what did agriculturalist promote?
family, French language, catholicism
why did immigration from the uk intensify in the 1840s?
a great famine was in Ireland
