social 6
MacDonalds National Policy
Promote Canadian Industry
Finish National Railway
Settle the West
Promote Canadian Industry
Finish National Railway
Settle the West
In 1871 Canada and the First Nations began to negotiate "Numbered Treaties" - according to chronological order
Adaptation vs. Assimilation
change vs. give up culture
Residential Schools
provide First Nation children with education and assimilate First Nation children
North West Mounted Police
1873
Chinese Railroad Workers
nearly 15,000 in British Columbia
Last Spike
November 7, 1885
Donald Smith
Craigellachie, BC
last spike in Canadian Pacific Railway
Immigration to Western Canada
advertising compaign in Europe
Clifford Sitton promoted British emigration
Eastern European immigrants
British Immigration to the West
Sipton and Canadian government still believed British was best
British emigration was promoted
French Canadian to the West
Bishop Grandin wrote to Bishop of Quebec encouraging French Catholics to settle west
Eastern Europeans to Western Canada
Contributed to economic and industrial growth in West
new labour force
market for Eastern Canadian goods
built fams and increased production of grain and agricultural products
Creation of Alberta and Saskatchewan
1905 - too large an area (North West Territories) for one provincial government to administer