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Chapter 9: Summative Assessment
Unit 3
After Confederation
Chapter 9 Assessment
Economic Growth in Western Canada
The Canadian government embarked on six major initiatives to stimulate growth in Western Canada throughout the late 1800s.
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Your task is to complete a chart that shows the six major initiatives of the Canadian government.
Explain the government’s purpose for each of these initiatives. - Download the Economic Growth Chart.
Please save your work to a file on your desktop so that you have a copy to refer back to. - Click on one of the links provided to download the document.
- You will then be able to view the Economic Growth Chart worksheet.
- You will address the following initiatives in your chart.
- treaties
- surveyors in the 1870s
- establishment of the North West Mounted Police
- National Policy: Transportation
- National Policy: Immigration
- National Policy: Economy
- At the bottom of your chart, do the following:
- Identify which initiative you think had the most significant effect on the development of growth in Canada’s West. Explain one reason to support your choice.
- Identify which group was most harmed by the government initiatives. Explain one reason to support your choice.

Document: Economic Growth Chart
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In your final product, be sure you have
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described the government’s purpose for each of the initiatives in the chart
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identified which initiative was most significant to the development of West Canada and provided a reason for your choice
- identified which group was most harmed by the government initiatives and provided a reason for your choice