REIGN OF QUEEN
VICTORIA
( P G S 5 6 - 6 5 )
Immigrants: Rich and Poor
1. Where were most immigrants to Canada coming from?
 Ireland and Scotland (mostly poor and uneducated)

2. What hardship did immigrants often face?
 Poor land-rocky
 Most immigrants were Catholic and were therefore discriminated against (Catholics vs. Protestant)
 Could only get manual jobs- low pay

4. What does assimilate mean?
 To join the majority group and give up the traditions of one’s own group

VICTORIAN ATTITUDES
AND VALUES
5. What are the characteristics of Victorian Society?
 Confident, believed in progress, religious
 Moral and well mannered
 Optimistic
 Sense of superiority, prude, obsessed with social status

6. What was Victorian style like?
 Fashion: more formal, extravagant, no tans!!!
 Corsets
 Décor: cluttered and overdone, heavy fabrics

7. What contradictions existed in Victorian society?
 People considered themselves moral and religious, yet were extremely materialistic.
 The Upper Classes looked down on the Lower
Classes.

A NEW AGE OF SCIENCE
AND MEDICINE
8. What new medical discoveries were during the Victorian
Era?
 Aspirin, antibiotics
 Antiseptics, x-rays, vitamins
 Hormones, vaccinations

9. What diseases were common in Victorian society?
 Smallpox, Cholera, typhoid fever
 Influenza, tuberculosis
 Scarlet fever, anthrax, rabies

10. How were diseases commonly spread?
 Contaminated water
 Doctors would often introduce germs into a patient’s body
 unsanitary conditions in operating room

1 1 . W H AT A DVA N C E S W E R E M A D E
I N T R E AT I N G T H E S E D I S E A S E S ?
 Louis Pasteur- discovered bacilli: cause of many diseases
 Also discovered the cause of anthrax, cholera and rabies
 Vaccinated people and animals against diseases

1 2 . W H O WA S E M I LY S T OW E ?
W H AT D I F F I C U LT I E S D I D S H E
FAC E A N D S U R M O U N T ?
 One of the first female doctors in the
British Empire
 No Canadian medical school would accept her so she had to attend university in US
 Had to practice illegally

13. WHO WAS LOUIS
PASTEUR? WHAT KIND OF
LIFE DID HE LIVE?
 Louis Pasteur discovered bacilli – the cause of many diseases
 Chose to live a simple and generous life instead of becoming wealthy from his inventions

LEISURE AND TRAVEL
(PGS 65-72)
14. List some popular amusements in Victorian times
 City: parties, concerts, fairs, circuses, shows
 Parlor games, blood sports
 Books, swimming for pleasure
 Countryside: barn, raisings, quilting bees, weddings

15. What sort of things were features at medicine shows?
 New inventions
 Patent medicines-cures

1 6 . W H AT WA S T H E N E W F O R M O F
T R A N S - AT L A N T I C T R AV E L ? H OW
L O N G D I D T H E J O U R N E Y TA K E ?
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17. WHAT DOES
INFRASTRUCTURE MEAN?
 Community systems that make travel, communication and business easier.

1 8 . N A M E C A N A DA’ S F I R S T
R A I LWAY. W H AT WA S I T S RO U T E ?
 Champlain Saint Lawrence Railroad
 Prairie to St. Jean sur Richelieu
(only one more…finally!)

1 9 . H OW W E R E V I C T O R I A N
N E W S PA P E R S D I F F E R E N T T H A N
N E W S PA P E R S T O DAY ?
 No professional sports section
 No comics
 No horoscopes, advice
 Had to be practical
 Scientific news

 List five influences that the
Victorians had on our society today.