Reading Guide for Chapter 1. A Different Canada

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1 Counterpoints: Exploring Canadian Issues, 2 nd Ed. Reading Guide for Chapter 1 A Different Canada Counterpoints: Exploring Canadian Issues, 2 nd Ed., Chapter 1, pages 4-23 / 67 Society and Manners: pages Read the side bar on page 6 that describes Wilfrid Laurier s political career and accomplishments. Which do you think is his most important achievement? Why? 2. Define the term Victorian. 3. Describe the values of the Victorian era. 4. What is meant by the term prohibition. 5. Why did the Woman s Temperance Union oppose the use of alcohol? 6. What was a suffragist? 7. Describe the status of women in the early 1900s. 8. Identify Canadian artists of the early 1900s and give examples of their work. Still a British Nation: pages What was the "Alaska Boundary Dispute" about? 10. Why did Britain side with the US in the Alaska Boundary Dispute? 11. What is meant by the term "imperialist"? 2010 Better Classroom Guidebooks Page 1 of 5

2 12. Why did many "British-Canadians" support Britain even though it acted against Canada's interests in the Alaska Boundary Dispute? 13. What is meant by the term "Canadien"? 14. What are "nationalists"? 15. What is meant by "autonomy"? 16. Who was Henri Bourassa? 17. What issues divided English and French Canadians in this era? Canada s Changing Population: pages What was a "homesteader"? 19. How did Prime Minister Laurier's government attract settlers to the "Last Best West"? 20. What does the term "ethnocentric" mean? 21. Why did French-Canadians fear immigration to Canada? 22. How were immigrants from eastern Europe greeted by "English-Canadians" on the prairies? 23. Why were immigrants from Asia grudgingly accepted on the West Coast in this era? 24. What was the purpose of the 1885 Chinese Immigration Act? 25. What was a "head tax"? 26. What happened in Vancouver in 1907 and what impact did it have on immigration from Asia? 27. In 2006 the federal government offered a parliamentary apology to Chinese Canadians who were affected by the head tax established by the 1885 Chinese Immigration Act and by the 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act. Later, Prime Minister Harper made a public apology to the Sikh community for the Komagata Maru Incident in which Sikhs were refused entry to Canada. However, the Prime Minister declined to make a "parliamentary apology". Do you think he should? Explain Better Classroom Guidebooks Page 2 of 5

3 28. Why did immigrants keep coming to Canada even when they were treated poorly? Name: 29. What was the "Indian Act"? 30. What are "reserves"? 31. Why were they created? 32. Why were Aboriginal attempts at farming on the prairies often not successful? 33. How would taking up farming change the way of life of Aboriginal people? 34. What were "residential schools"? 35. What effects did they have on Aboriginal children? 36. Why were First nations children forced to attend residential schools? 37. What is meant by the term "assimilation"? 38. Give examples of the federal government's efforts to form the assimilation of First nations peoples in the 1800s and early 1900s. 39. Who was Joe Capilano? 40. What was the response of the Canadian government to Capilano's meeting with King Edward? 41. What is "urbanization"? 42. What attracted people to cities in the early 1900s? 43. Describe the living conditions of working class city dwellers in the early 1900s. 44. Describe the living conditions of wealthy city dwellers in the early 1900s. 45. What did Guglielmo Marconi accomplish in 1901? 2010 Better Classroom Guidebooks Page 3 of 5

4 46. Who developed the first airplane to fly in Canada? 47. Who was the first person to broadcast music and voice? 48. How did the bicycle craze affect women in the early 1900s? An Economy Transformed: pages What impact did the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 have on western Canada? 50. What is "hydroelectric power"? 51. How did it benefit factories? 52. What is meant by "industrialization"? 53. On what was most of Canada's manufacturing sector focused in the early 1900s? 54. List several "brand names" and products that became well known in the early 1900s as consumers demanded goods. 55. How many telephones were in use in Canada by 1913? 56. List three corporations that were dominant in their fields in Canada in the early 1900s. 57. What is a "trade union"? 58. Why did workers form them in this era? 59. Why did coal miners in Nanaimo, BC go on strike in 1913? 60. What is a "recession"? 61. What events led to the recession that started after 1910? 62. Compare the photo on page 19 to some of today's work environments Better Classroom Guidebooks Page 4 of 5

5 Resources and the Environment: pages Describe the environmental "disaster" that occurred on the Fraser River in Name: 64. List several parks the were created in BC to preserve the environment. 65. What are the "Athabasca Tar Sands"? 66. How are the "sands" processed? 67. Explain why you think the Athabasca Tar Sands should/should not be developed. War and Change: page 21 No questions Better Classroom Guidebooks Page 5 of 5