HIST 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Poutine
12 Sep 2016
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Poutine is an important national symbol of canada. Cook books can explain different time periods and what they meant to people. Chinatown: turned to food provision after the worked on the railroad. Driving force that shaped immigration policy: tied to the demands of labour for business by other in canada. That is the fundamental mechanisms that drives the policy: the shifting demand for labour to do work that those in canada don"t want to do for themselves. People came to work in europe to work in the prairie"s. Not what is what like on the posters. In the late 19th early 20th-canadian railway was responsible for immigrants-business was driving force behind immigration. You can come from south asia to canada if you did one major trip, but it was impossible for any trip to make that whole trip without stopping. Sikh deportation and the komagata maru afair, 1914. Homosexual-couldn"t be deported for the longest time but you couldn"t even enter.
