Chapter 11 Encouraging Immigration
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Chapter 11: Encouraging Immigration
Part A. Vocabulary:
Fill in the missing word, blanks or definition in the chart below.
Word
Definition
false advertising
Are people who leave their homelands
Emigrants become _________________ when they come to
live in a new land
The factors that cause people to leave their homeland
Factors that influence people to choose a certain country to
move too.
persecuted
pacifists
A society made up of many different types of people, each
with its own unique _____________, ______________,
__________________, and culture; the resulting society
has a sense of _______________ for all cultures
Communal Lifestyle
Part B: Questions
FQ1: Why did Canada need immigrants?
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FQ2: How did the Canadian government
encourage immigrants to come to
Canada from Europe? What techniques
did they use?
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FQ3: Why did the governments
immigration policy succeed?
FQ4: What strategies did missionaries
and religious communities use to
attract immigrants to Western
Canada?
FQ5: How did Francophones contribute
to the overall development of Western
Canada? Give examples?
FQ6: How did the flow of immigration
influence the character of Western
Canada?
1. Four different groups of people lived in the west making it a
pluralistic society, list the four groups of people?
2. What is one of the most important factors that changes a countries
identity? Why?
3. Who was Canada’s first French Canadian Prime Minister and why did he say
“The twentieth century belongs to Canada.”
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4. A variety of organizations took part in bringing newcomers to Canada, each with
their own motivations, who were the 4 organizations involved in the effort and why
did each of these groups want to bring immigrants to Canada?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5. Who was the person in charge of immigration for Canada?
6. Who did the government target in its publicity campaign to bring immigrants
to Canada? Why did Canada want people from each of these regions to move
to the West
7. Using either words or a diagram explain the difference between immigrants
and emigrants?
8. What are 2 examples each, of Push and Pull factors? What is one example of
a push factor that is out of the governments control?
9. Missionaries attracted 4 groups to move to Canada, who were they?
a. Who were the British Home Children and why were they sent to
Canada?
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10. Describe what life was actually like for new immigrants to the west?
11. Why did the Canadian government not advertise and encourage immigration
West in Quebec?
12. By 1911 the government had been so successful in getting people to move to
the Canadian West that 80 percent of the people living there had
been_________________________________________.
13. How did the Great Grain Growers contribute to the character of Western
Canada? What became the most important crop grown in the west?
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Part A: Vocabulary.
Math the words to the correct definition
_____
A. policy
B.
Numbered
Treaties
A formal agreement between nations
_____ The languages the federal government must by law use to serve its
citizens. If a language is official its use is required and protected
by law.
C. assimilation
_____ Boarding schools where Aboriginal children where sent and forced
to adopt English ways.
official
D.
language
_____ A group of 11 treaties signed by the Canadian government and
various Frist nations living between the Great Lakes and the Rocky
Mountains.
E.
Residential
schools
_____ A way of life or a way of being shared by a group of people;
culture includes the knowledge, experiences, and values a group
shares and that shape the way its members see the world
F. Culture
_____ A process by which one culture is absorbed by a more dominant
culture because of its overwhelming influence.
G. Treaty
_____ A formal plan of action to achieve a specific goal
Answer the following questions giving as much detail as you can, include examples or evidence to back
up your answers.
I.
Why did First Nations and
the government of Canada
sign the Numbered Treaties?
II.
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How did immigrants
from Eastern Europe
contribute to the
development of
Western Canada?
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III.
How did Chinese immigrants
contribute to the development of
Canada?
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IV. How did the arrival of so many immigrants affect Francophone
peoples in Western Canada?
V. How did government policy affect the
growth of Western Canada?
Part C Concept Practice Questions:
1. What are the 3 parts to the national policy?
2. How many numbered treaties are there?
3. From the Canadian Governments perspective, why did they want to sign the numbered
treaties?
1) Why did the government need to acquire their land? It they didn’t sign the treaty
what part of the national policy would fail?
4. In the numbered treaties there was a MAIN agreement in all of them that the Canadian
government promised to provide to the First Nations, what did they promise? ***
1)
2)
3)
5. How did the Canadian government go about implementing their policy of assimilation in
the west?
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6. Peoples from Eastern Europe formed the greatest number of newcomers to the prairies in
the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Who were the 4 main Eastern European groups that
came at this time?
7. How did early eastern European immigrants contribute to the culture of Canada? Give 1
real example.
8. What kinds of things pushed people to move to Canada, and what kinds of things pulled
them to choose Canada as a new home?
9. What were the two original reasons Chinese immigrants
came to Canada in the early and late 1800’s?
10. What kinds of jobs did the Chinese immigrants that chose to stay take on after the
completion of the railroad and the end of the gold rush?
11. Why did the status of French change in the west? How did the Francophone attempt to
keep their identity strong in the west? Include examples
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