Western Migration, Part 2Immigration Game, Head Tax Questions, Other Perspectives,

Context, Gold Rush

Immigration Game Take UpHow have Canadian immigration policies

changed since 1910?

How have they stayed the same?

Did you learn anything about the

emotions, culture, attitudes, and ethics

of the past Canadians?

Answers

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Quick Context...- Dominion Lands Act was the 1872 piece of

legislation that granted a quarter section of

free land (160 acres or 64.7 hectares) to any

settler 21 years of age or older who paid a

ten–dollar registration fee, lived on his

quarter section for three years, cultivated 30

acres (12.1 hectares), and built a permanent

dwelling.

Other Perspectives in Immigration- African-Americans and Mormons would flee from

the United States to Canada to escape persecution

- Some peoples were able to escape religious or

moral/ethical persecution

(Jewish people in Europe and pacifists in Russia, for

example)

- If immigrants worked in Urban centres, it was

mostly in city infrastructure (worked/dug in

sewers, textile factories, lay down street tracks)

Other Perspectives in Immigration- Home Children, 100 000 children sent from

England, would be adopted and forced to

work in harsh conditions (cheap labour on

farms)

- British immigrants were losing favour with

Canadian Officials; would flock to cities

- 90000 British and 20000 European Women

were summoned to be domestic servants

Treatment of Indigenous Peoples- Clifford Sifton had also cut funding to the Department of Indian Affairs (also under his

purview while he was Minister of the Interior) and Indigenous Education; did not see

them as meaningful contributors

- 850,000 km2 secured of land for railway building and for other immigrants; in some

cases these were reserve lands that Sifton had his people try (and did) secure

Klondike Gold Rush- Although news of the Klondike (region) Gold

discovery took a year to travel, many fortune

seekers made their way to the Yukon (which

bordered with Alaska at the time)

- Sifton was motivated to construct Northern

railways to support these ventures (this part

of North America was difficult to reach)

- The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)

played an essential role in maintaining order

on the Canadian side of the border