Socials 11
History
Theme: Canadian Society and Identity
Asian Immigrants
Racist/Ethnocentric
 Chinese Immigration Act (1885) – Head Tax
 Chinese Exclusion Act (1923)
 Asiatic Exclusion League Race Riots (1907) in
Vancouver targeting Chinese-Cdns and
Japanese-Cdns
 Komagata Maru (1914) refused entry to
Indians
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European Immigrants
First Nations
Rascist/Ethnocentric
 Prefer English, Americans, Western Europeans
 Sifton: Eastern Europeans (Ukrainians, Polish)
Extermination by assimilation
 Reserves, way of life gone
 Residential Schools (disease, abuses, high death
rates)
Apology in 2008
Apology to Chinese-Cdns 2006 ($20000 to living payers and
spouses of payers), 2014 BC
Apology to Japanese-Cdns 1998 ($21000 for survivors)
Apology to Indo-Cdns 2008 BC and Canada
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Chinese and Japanese volunteers reluctantly
accepted
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Visible Minorities – Racism
 active discouragement of black immigration
into Canada
 Education Act 1918 segregation
 KKK – hatred towards non-Protestant nonwhites
 1919 Brotherhood of Railway Workers accept
black porters as members
 Asians (Chinese) excluded
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Japanese-Cdns given the option to be
repatriated
internment camps for recent Ger and A-H
immigrants
immigrants from enemy countries had right to
vote taken away
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volunteers not accepted at first
Tom Longboat was courier during war
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not persons under the law, can’t vote (in BC 1949
got right to vote)
in BC: potlatch banned, cut off land, aboriginal title
residential schools
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war brides
immigration of displaced person (DPs)
1957 Hungarian refugees
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1960 right to vote in federal elections (Status
Indians)
environmental damage on FNs’ land
ex) mercury poisoning on White Dog Reserve in ON
NIB, White Paper (Trudeau) vs. Red Paper
(Citizens Plus)
education (residential schools) and environment
(Mackenzie Valley Pipeline, James Bay Hydro
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land claims (specific and comprehensive)
1990 Oka ($200M vs $5M)
Nisga’a Treaty 1995 (since 1880s) – land, profits
from fishery & hydro development, self-govt,
policing and $$$
1998 Delgamuluukw – Aboriginal title
1999 Nunavut
2008 Residential Schools apology
June 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Report
Theme: Canadian Society and Identity
Farmers
Workers
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“Last Best West”
new immigrants to settle
Prairies
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food produced for soldiers
farmers are expanding farms
they are good prices for their
product
anti-conscription because don’t
want their men to leave farms
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Women
Urbanization reminiscent of IR in
GBR
trade unions & strikes
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Victorian era
suffragists (prohibition)
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nationalists vs imperialists
Laurier (compromise)
Manitoba Schools Question
Boer War (1899)
Naval Service Act (1910)
factories are now manufacturing
goods for war (shells, munitions,
equipment etc…)
war economy
wages are high, unions tolerated
anti-conscription because they are
contributing to war effort at home
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Volunteer organizations (Red
Cross)
Serve as nurses (Bluebirds)
worked in jobs traditionally held by
men
munitions factories
MB 1916 received right to vote
(1917 AB, SK; 1917 ON, BC)
1917 Wartime Elections Act
1918 right to vote in federal
elections
WCTU
Agnes MacPhail 1921
Emily Murphy 1916
(Persons Case)
Carine Wilson 1930
fashion reflects freedoms
still paid less
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no loyalty to England (or Fr)
low enlistment
Vandoos (22nd Battlion)
Henri Bourassa
anti-conscription
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United Farmers’ Parties
Don’t like National Policy,
railway
Progressive Party
1947 Oil AB
1962 SK passes Medical Care
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Quebec
trade unions (Russian Rev)
Western Labour Conference 1919:
OBU
1919 WGS (higher wages, less
hours, better working conditions,
collective bargaining) Bloody
Saturday
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1966 CPP, Medicare
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1960 birth control pill
1967 RC on Status of Women
1971 NAC
Irene Murdoch, Rosemary Brown
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Duplessis (Great Darkness) Union
Nationale – blame economic probs on
Anglos, Church has power, traditional
values (1948 Fleur de Lys)
Jean Lesage (Quiet Rev) Liberal –
separation of Church and state,
education overhaul, modernize,
equality for Francophones
FLQ separatist terrorist organization
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Bi and Bi Commission  Official
Languages Act, new flag
Expo 67 – DeGualles “Vivre Quebec
Libre”
1967 PQ Rene Levesque
October Crisis 1970 (FLQ) – WMA
Bill 22
1976 PQ in power in QC – Bill 101
1980 referendum on sovereigntyassoc (60/40)
1982 Kitchen Compromise (patriation
of Constitution)
1987 Meech Lake
1991 Bloc Quebecois – Lucien
Bouchard
1992 Charlottetown Accord
1995 referendum on full sovereignty
(50.6/49.4) Jacques Parizeau
Clarity Act 2000
Jean Charest 2003
Socials 11
History
Theme: Canadian Autonomy & International Involvement
Independence
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1867 Confederation
Alaska Boundary Dispute (1903)
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WW1 – development of
nationhood and identity
Valcartier
Vimy Ridge
recognition at Paris Peace
Conference w/ seat, but no vote
1922 Chanak Crisis
1923 Halibut Treaty
1926 King-Byng Crisis
1926 Balfour Report
1931 Statute of Westminster:
British Commonwealth
Sept 10, 1939 declaration of war
King “This is not our War”
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(NORAD - under US)
UN
Cuba
Vietnam (Pearson)
Trudeau – Cuba, China, FIRA, aid
to developing nations
(Mulroney – Star Wars, Investment
Canada, FTA, NAFTA)
Canada’s role in WW1
HOME FRONT
 PM Borden (Conservative)
 “Ready Aye Ready” Laurier
 Sam Hughes and Shell Scandal,
Ross Rifle, profiteering
 Imperial Munitions Board and
Joseph Flavelle
 WMA
 volunteers
 Sir Thomas White and Income
War Tax, Victory Bonds
 munitions factories
 convoys and merchant marine
 conscription (Military Service
Act): Military Voters Act
and Wartime Elections Act
Union government
 Halifax disaster (1917)
 Spanish Influenza
OVERSEAS
 high enlistment rates at beginning
of war (35000)
 CEF: Ypres, Somme, Vimy
Ridge, Passchendaele, 100 days
 Generals: Byng and Arthur Currie
 Paris Peace Conference, Treaty
of Versailles
 ~424000 served overseas,
~60000 dead
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Canada’s role in WW2
HOME FRONT
 PM King promises “no
conscription”
 not excited but enlistment is
high
 TOTAL WAR (esp after
spring 1940)
 WMA
 BCATP
 CD Howe (Min of Defense)
 NSS
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 “Arsenal for Democracy”
 James Ilsley: Victory Bonds,
Income Tax, rationing,
 WPTB
 convoys merchant marine
 role of women
 Conscription Crisis (1942
plebiscite) Ralston,
McNaughton
 Japanese-Canadian
interment and treatment of
enemy aliens
 propaganda
 social programs
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OVERSEAS
Battle of the Atlantic, Hong
Kong, Dieppe, Italy (mouse
holing), D-Day (Juno Beach),
Liberation of northern Europe
Battle of Britain
Bomber Command
~370000 served overseas
~42000 dead
Participation in world affairs
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British Foreign Office dictates
foreign affairs for Canada
Boer War: sent volunteers
Naval Service Bill
WW1
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Paris Peace Conference, Treaty of
Versailles
contributions recognized with a
seat but not a vote
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WW2 involvement in Eur and Asia
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UN – Korea, Suez Canal Crisis
(Pearson), Somalia, Rwanda,
Iraq/Kuwait
Cuban Missile Crisis (Diefenbaker)
Vietnam
Cold War – Gouzenko Affair
NATO, NORAD
globalization
Yugoslavia
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