Unit 4

After Confederation - Part 2

Activity

 

Document: A Pluralistic Society

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1. Download the lesson summary, A Pluralistic Society.
   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 A Pluralistic Society worksheet.
  




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3. Complete the questions in the summary as you complete the textbook reading for this lesson.


4. Read pages 253 to 255 of the textbook, which describe some of the immigrants the Church helped bring to Canada West.
• Churches and religious groups took a special interest in immigration because they believed the Canadian West offered their members a better life.


5. Read pages 256 to 259 of the textbook and read about a very Canadien community on page 258.
• Why is this an important community?
• Francophones were the first non-Aboriginal people in Western Canada. They had been engaged in the fur trade since the 1730s and had developed many French- speaking communities on the Prairies.
• Many Canadiens from Quebec had immigrated to western Canada in the 1800s. However, in the early 1900s, the Canadian government wished clearly to promote an Anglophone Western Canada.


6. Read page 260 of the textbook to see the wide diversity of immigrants in the West.


7. Read page 262 of the textbook and give particular attention to Figure 11.21.
• This picture shows homesteaders breaking prairie sod.
• In your lesson summary, you will compare an old plow to a modern day plow.


8. When you have completed your lesson summary, go to the next page.