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)

Urbanisation in Quebec, post-Confederation

Read about urbanisation at the McCord museum!




Montreal: 1896-1914, The Canadian Metropolis



Settlement of Canada's West



Consumption in Victorian Canada:

Today in Canadian History: December 6, 1917

During WWI, a French munitions ship, Mont Blanc, was anchored near the Halifax Harbour. Another ship, the Imo, collided with it. Onlookers had no clue how deadly this collision was to be... Read this article about the Halifax Explosion.

British Rule, part 2: 1815-1867

Changes in Population & Settlement in Lower Canada, after 1815:


Review:
Over the last couple of weeks, we've examined changes and continuity to the population of Quebec, after the Conquest (1760). In terms of the population, little changed, despite the  new rulers. However, there was one important change: no further immigration from France. From that point on, immigrants to Quebec were, for the most part, from the Thirteen colonies or from England. By the turn of the nineteenth century, the Anglophone minority in the colony was very small; the canadiens population grew quickly because of its high birth rate.


Current topic:
Immigration to Lower Canada changed radically after 1815; dramatic social changes in the British Isles had a huge impact on British North America (Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland). Millions left the British Isles for North America. Of those immigrants who arrived in the port of Quebec city, most continued on to Upper Canada. Still, huge numbers settled in Lower Canada - both in the cities and in new rural areas - altering the social fabric of Lower Canada.


Classwork & Evaluation:
While reading, try to find information that helps you understand changes in LC's population, society and territory.
1) Read the document booklet. Highlight information. Examine the documents.  Group discussion.
2) Complete handout: How did LC change during this time period?
3) Finish handout: "English in Lower Canada..." - 3 questions, 1 map
4) Read textbook: Panoramas, pp. 51-60
5) Readings: Irish immigration
6) Handout: "Results of Immigration..." - complete questions.


At the end of this "time period," you will receive a short set of corresponding notes. You will have a short assignment (group work) about the time period; and a quiz to see if you've understood the information we've covered (mid-week, next). 


An interesting link:
Letters collected by the Canada Company to Encourage Emigration
Emigration to North America in 1847

"What if They Declared an Emergency and No One Came?"

"It's been three weeks since Attawapiskat First Nation took the extraordinary step of declaring a state of emergency. Since then, not a single federal or provincial official has even bothered to visit the community."

Read this article by Charlie Angus (MP, Timmins-James Bay) in the Huffington Post.


December 1, 2011
I posted the article above over a week ago; in the meantime, there has been much focus on the community, and the Red Cross is bringing in supplies and aid. Not only are the federal government and provincial governments are still pointing fingers at each other, but the federal government has also decided to examine the financial mismanagement by the band council of the billions of dollars they have received from Ottawa. 


Here are two links from the CBC:
A View from Attiwapiskat before the Crisis
Attiwapiskat crisis plan called short-sighted


Also interesting is the article:
First Nations housing in dire need of overhaul
Clean running water still a luxury on many native reserves


14 December, update:
From the National Post: How Ottawa spent 90$ million at Attiwapiskat
From CBC: Attiwapiskat chief blasts minister in an open letter

Population in NF, 1608-1663

Homework: Population and settlement in early New France

Read textbook, Panoramas, pp. 26-36
Four documents to analyse
Six questions 
Map (identify the area that is inhabited; label the four main towns)