HISTORY 3N03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Per Capita Income, Baby Boomers, Masculinity

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Poverty was largely invisible and off public radar (in public imagination) Time of massive prosperity post-1945 in canada. Industrial activity (production on the rise, factories were buzzing: demographic factors ( baby-boom and increased immigration, pent-up consumer demand. In the 1950s, canadians believed they would benefit. Moral obligation to accept refugees and canada wanted to increase its labour force: targeted europe, racial exclusions dropped only in 1962 (canada was pressured to accept immigrants from around the world) led to points system . In 1967: pearson instated points system : people that wanted to come to canada had to have a certain amount of points, but had class biases. Suburbs and needing a car to get around and do things were fairly novel at the time. Suburbs came to exist because young couples were looking for places to live (huge housing shortages at the time: government began to promote suburbs and offered cheap mortgages. Suburbs were built very quickly, ranging in quality.

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