Population & Settlement: Term and unit evaluation

This exam is worth approximately 65% of Term 2.

Purple 06: Wednesday, January 25
Blue 02 & Orange 05: Thursday, January 26
Red 01: Friday, January 27

If you are absent, you must provide a legal or medical note. Those of you who may miss for sports, please see me to make alternate plans. Snow day, you say? Exam would be moved to the following class.

The exam is based on documents. There will be 20 short answer questions and one essay. Try to study twenty minutes a night, starting with the Aboriginal period, moving toward the contemporary Canadian period.

SOURCES TO STUDY:

- About 13 pages of notes and several handouts per historical period (use the SQ3R study method);
- There are "review" pages at the end of this chapter (pp. 134-137);
- The front of textbook features an overview of 500 years of our history, by first, time period and secondly, chronologically (pp. XII-XIX);
- An atlas at the end of the textbook provides maps that show the evolution of Canada and Quebec's territory, pp. 306-308;
- A specific population and settlement timeline (p. 326-327).


TOPICS OF STUDY: 

- Aboriginals, circa 1500: effect of geographic location on their way of life, especially their social & political organisation; evolution of their population over 500 years; mistreatment by various governments; conditions today.

- French Regime, 1608-1760: New France - Population growth before and after Royal Government, 1663; (control by fur monopolies, reasons for slow growth, government programs) and territorial organisation (system of land division, along with its obligations)

- British Rule, 1760-1867: Conquest to Confederation - (Quebec-Lower Canada-United Canada) - understand how the population evolved after the British takeover; reasons for Loyalists' arrival and their social impact on Quebec; the Great Migration from the British Isles after 1815; understand the impact of rapid population growth (immigration + high birth rate) on the occupied territory; French-canadien exodus, new areas of colonisation in Quebec and urbanisation

- Contemporary Canada, 1867-2000: Confederation to present day - Quebec: settlement and development of western Canada; European immigration and discriminatory government immigration policies; Great Depression & WWII's impact on the population (immigration and birth rate), social conditions; Post-war baby-boom, immigration since 1970, and Quebec's demographic challenges (low birth rate, aging population...)

Canada, 1880-1930: Population & Settlement

Using your notes (Contemporary Canada, pt. 2 (National Policy + Restrictions), handouts (1896-1909 document booklet + Canada, 1880-1930), and textbook, p. 135 (review of the entire theme), write a paragraph using ten words from the list below that demonstrates comprehension of that time period. You may alter the words.

diversity    
Prairies
immigration
"desirable" or "undesirable"
advertising
"push" or "pull" factors
wheat
National Policy
1896
Clifford Sifton
C.P.R.
farmers
Europe(ans)
discrimination
Aboriginals
W.W. I (1914)
urbanisation
Great Depression (1929)