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IMMIGRATION FROM 1896 (LAURIER) to 1947 (KING)
I: About the lesson
About the lesson
Locating the site
Map of Eastern Ontario/ Western Quebec
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Visiting the site
www.parkscanada.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/on/laurier/index_e.asp
II: Setting the scene : Immigration: 1896-1947 An Overview
Setting the scene
III: Figuring out the facts : Readings
Figuring out the facts
- The Great Boom of 1900 to 1913
- Immigration, the Railroad, and the West
- Chinese Immigrants
- Mackenzie King and the Plight of Jewish Refugees
- i) Clifford Sifton, Minister of the Interior: Peasant in a Sheep-skin
Coat, and ii) Stephen Leacock: The Immigration Problem
- Status of Aliens in the Canadian Citizenship Act (1947)
IV: Visual Evidence
Visual Evidence
- Cartoon The Canadian West: An Irresistible Attraction
- Photograph of immigrant homestead in the West
- Photograph of Doukhobor settlement in Manitoba
- Publications distributed by the government to attract immigrants to
Canada
- Canadian National Railway timetable promoting excursions to the West
- Photograph of people denied entry to Canada
- Photograph of Head Tax Certificate (1925)
- Photograph of Mackenzie King with Canadian Citizenship Certificate (1947)
V: Putting it All Together : Activities
Putting it All Together
- Compare and contrast: an account of the Conscription crisis of 1917 by an English-Canadian historian and one written by a French-Canadian historian.
- Discussion of 1917 editorial: What would you think of this war if you had grown up in Quebec? If you had grown up in English-Canada?
- War Letters: research old war letters, and write a description of life at the front.
VI: Supplementary Resources
Supplementary Resources
Canadian Department of Citizenship & Immigration
Government site on immigration history
Passport office/history