Social History Flashcards
John Palliser’s
- He made a topographical delimitation of the boundary between British North America and the United States, from Lake Superior to the coast of the Pacific Ocean.
- The information contained in his survey was instrumental in the ending of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s ownership of Rupert’s Land (lands encompassing all tributaries to Hudson Bay) with the Deed of Surrender in 1869. While Palliser is credited with opening up a new era of settlement and development in the Canadian West, his warnings about the unsuitability to agricultural development of the area now known as Palliser’s Triangle went unheeded. Palliser reported that the region including what is now southeastern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan, was too arid for farming. The area was nevertheless settled for farming, but was devastated in the Dust Bowl drought.
Rupert’s Land Act
1868
authorizing the transfer of Rupert’s Land from the control of the Hudson’s Bay Company to the Dominion of Canada.
Homestead Acts
The Homestead Acts were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain
Immigrant desirability
Preference to Northern Europeans
Eastern Europeans also acceptable
South Europeans less acceptable
Asian Jewish Black People less acceptable
When was the Fraser Valley Gold Rush?
1858
Chinese Immigration Act
1923
the Chinese Immigration Act was passed. It went into effect on July 1, 1923. The Act banned Chinese immigrants from entering Canada except those under the following titles:
Diplomat
Foreign student
Under Article 9 of the Act, “Special circumstance” granted by the Minister of Immigration (This is the class that former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson’s family fell under).
Merchant
Chinese Head Tax
1903 got to $500
Komagata Maru Incident
Komagata Maru sailed from British Hong Kong, via Shanghai, China, and Yokohama, Japan, to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in 1914, carrying 376 passengers from Punjab, British India. Of them, 24 were admitted to Canada, but the other 352 passengers were not allowed to disembark in Canada, and the ship was forced to return to India.[1] The passengers comprised 340 Sikhs, 24 Muslims, and 12 Hindus, all British subjects. This was one of several incidents in the early 20th century in which exclusion laws in Canada and the United States were used to exclude immigrants of Asian origin.
Men who married during the war and were returning home with their new bride
War Brides
MacDonald’s National Policy
Western Resettlement
Development of Transcontinental Railway
Protectionism
Protectionism
Concern over American Manufacturing hurting Canadian Manufacturing
Impact of New Population on Economy
High Tariffs
Grain Market issue
- disconnect between producer and seller
- Seller could sell grain for however much they wanted
- Incorrect weights
- Improper grading
- Inconvenient positions
- grading lacked precision
Elevator Scandal
Empire Elevator- Grossly under weighing crops
Port Arthur Terminal Elevator Company
Grain Market Issue Solution?
formed 1908, ended in 1928
Articles about news that concerned agricultural producers
Wheat Prices Worldwide
Provincial Ownership
The Siege of Ottawa
1910
Farm Leaders went to Ottawa angry about high tariffs and supported free trade
J.S Woodsworth
Cooperative Commonwealth Federation first leader
Thomas Crerar
Liberal Minister of Agriculture Great Wars union Government
resigned 1919 over tariffs
Formed the progressive Party
Master Apprentice Relationship
Lived together
had to provide necessities of life
Teach Skill
16-21
Winnipeg General Strike
1919
Fight for collective bargaining
Building trade and metal workers councils
Wartime inflation and wartime profiteering
returned veterans
Massive unemployment and inflation, the success of the Russian Revolution in 1917, and rising Revolutionary Industrial Unionism all contributed to the postwar labour unrest that fuelled the landmark strike.
In March 1919 western labour leaders met in Calgary to discuss the creation of One Big Union. In Winnipeg on 15 May, when negotiations broke down between management and labour in the building and metal trades, the Winnipeg Trades and Labor Council (WTLC) called a general strike.
30 000 workers
Afraid the strike would spark confrontations in other cities, the federal government decided to intervene.
On 17 June the government arrested 10 leaders of the Central Strike Committee and two propagandists from the newly formed One Big Union. Four days later, a charge by Royal North-West Mounted Police into a crowd of strikers resulted in 30 casualties, including one death. Known as “Bloody Saturday”, it ended with federal troops occupying the city’s streets.
The theory that the origin and phenomena of life are dependent on a force or principle distinct from purely chemical or physical forces.
Vitalism
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
published by Houghton Mifflin on 27 September 1962.[30] The book described the harmful effects of pesticides on the environment, and is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement.[31] Carson was not the first, or the only person to raise concerns about DDT,[32] but her combination of “scientific knowledge and poetic writing” reached a broad audience and helped to focus opposition to DDT use
Work Reconceptualized views on wolfs
Scientist opposed
Farley Mowat
Canadas water act WHEN
1970
Started at 20% phosphate by 1972 5%
Pass system
Stemmed 1885 rebellion
concern about bolstering numbers
banned indigenous dances
Residential Schools
Language Assimilation
est 1/5 children experienced sexual abuse
Peasant farm policy
1889
But in 1889, the Peasant Farm Policy was implemented, effectively reducing what Aboriginal farmers’ could earn
Indian Act
1880
Klondike Gold Rush
George Carmack - First to discover gold to start the rush.
Tread Gold Succession
money that flowed because of investors it wasn;t being spent in the Yukon it was getting shipped out to other places where investors are.
Henri Bourassa
French Canadian Nationalist
Argued against Canada’s participation in the first world war and against conscription
Louis Papineau is his grandfather
Founded Ligue Nationaliste Canadienne in 1903
Recapitulation Theory
is a historical hypothesis that the development of the embryo of an animal, from fertilization to gestation or hatching (ontogeny), goes through stages resembling or representing successive adult stages in the evolution of the animal’s remote ancestors (phylogeny).
Granville Stanley Hall
was a pioneering American psychologist and educator. His interests focused on childhood development and evolutionary theory. Hall was the first president of the American Psychological Association and the first president of Clark University.
GREGORY MARCHILDON
the accepted narrative of the history of medicare in Canada does not do justice to the struggle between premiers Tommy Douglas of Saskatchewan and Ernest Manning of Alberta over two very different models of universal health coverage
-Ultimately, Douglas’s model of medicare would be adopted in the rest of Canada even though Manningcare was the preferred choice of doctors, insurance companies, the business establishment, the majority of provincial governments, and fundamentalist Christians such as Manning who believed that Douglas’s model resulted in an abdication of individual responsibility and moral choice
Robert Mcintosh
: the labour of boys was cheaper than that of their fathers and older brothers. The presence of young workers in the mine had further advantages for older workers: by equating “boys” with low-skill, poorly-paid work, the status of the “skilled” collier was safeguarded.
- Two early 19th century innovations in mining greatly increased the demand for child labour
1. By mid-century the task of hauling coal generally fell to 14 to 17 year old boys, called drivers, and the horses they led. Where seams were too narrow to permit the passage of horses (or adults), coal continued to be moved manually by boys on all fours dragging sledges.
2. A second technological innovation early in the 19th century encouraged the employment of even younger children. As mines extended deeper underground, problems of ventilation became more pressing. Under the compound system of mine ventilation developed by John Buddie, doors known as “traps” were introduced into mines.
Shirley Tillotson
- Citizen participation would also help people feel that they, and not some distant ‘others,’ owned their society’s institutions.
- Canada has a long history of aspiring to a democratic culture. The period between 1945-57 was examined to see how people reacted to the welfare state in effect at the time.
- community committees contributed to breaking down social exclusiveness
- Undoubtedly, they succeeded in making recreation services a new government responsibility. But efforts towards the broader reform goals of democratic empowerment were largely frustrated.
- client - hood. Indeed, the hierarchies of our communities helped make the welfare state what it is. That is why democratizing our political culture meant, and continues to mean, tackling the hierarchies of daily life.
Bygone Era
This research note analyzes a Quebec-based oral history contest, ‘‘Memory of a Bygone Era,’’ which collected nearly a thousand recordings in the 1980s
Vulgar Marxism, counter-cultural trends, Christian ideology, and nationalism all combined to justify and support the collection of an astonishing number of oral biographies that told the story of Quebec’s past from the perspective of ordinary citizens
From Cut lines to traplines
This paper examines post-industrial hunting and trapping at the former Pine Point mine, Northwest Territories, to clarify the effects of environmental and socioeconomic change on land use in the nearby, predominantly Aboriginal, community of Fort Resolution.
- lthough the mine employed few individuals from Fort Resolution, the introduction of industrial mineral extraction in the region coincided with a transition from a primarily land-based economy to a mixed economy heavily reliant on wage labor.
- From maintaining a reliance on the mixed economy to appropriating the post-mining landscape in ways that benefit hunting and trapping, land users from Fort Resolution continue to be influenced by the Pine Point mine long after its abandonment
True to my own Noble Race
Emily General - most politically active,
Julia Jameson - made an effort to keep mohawk language
Susan Hardie -bitch really mean
