Unit 4

After Confederation - Part 2

Skill Builders Targets

Activity


  1. Download the lesson summary, An Industrial 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 An Industrial Society worksheet.


    Read


  1. Complete the questions in the lesson summary as you read the assigned textbook pages and watch the following videos.

  2. Read pages 296 to 308 in your textbook.
      • The expanding industrial growth in Canada brought both economic prosperity and social problems. Cities became overcrowded and dirty, and many people were trapped in low-paying industrial jobs.

  3. Watch the two videos in the coloured boxes below.

  4. Following World War II, prosperity continued as Western Canadian resources such as wheat, oil, coal, lumber, and potash were in demand worldwide.  Canadian factories began producing consumer goods, and Canadian society entered a new phase of growth.


Document: An Industrial Society

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Watch

Click to watch the video, "The History of The Vote - Women's Right to Vote" of the suffrage movement and women’s right to vote to learn more about this period in history.

Watch

The 1930s were a time of great hardship for most Canadians. Much of the world was plunged into the Great Depression.

Click the link to watch the video, "The Great Depression in Canada" to gain a better understanding of what happened during the Great Depression.
The great depression in Canada

Submit your completed lesson summary on the next page.

For more information about the first World War, visit the website CBC Digital Archives - Going Over the Top at Vimy Ridge.

You can read more about women’s rights in Canada at the  Nellie McClung Foundation website
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