Unit 3

After Confederation

Activity

The Immigration Policy

1. Download the lesson summary, Immigration and Economic Policies.
   Please save your work to a file on your desktop so you will have a copy to refer back to. 


2. Click on one of the links provided to download the document.
   
• You will then be able to view the Immigration and Economic Policies worksheet. 




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3. Complete the questions in the lesson summary as you read the assigned textbook pages in this lesson.
• The government needed to convince people to come to the West to farm the land.


4. Read pages 207 to 210 in your textbook.
• Look at the map on page 207 of the textbook. Government surveyors divided the land into townships, which included sections for the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), Hudson’s Bay Company, farms, and schools.
  
  
  

  The government encouraged immigration with the Dominion Lands Act in 1872.


5. Read the case study on page 211 of the textbook.
• When First Nations signed treaties, the government agreed to support them to become farmers. 


• However, the government did not fulfill its obligations to support First Nations farming operations, and it reneged on many of the Treaty promises.
  
  
6. Proceed to the next page of the course.