CAST 1100H Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Welland Canal, Canadian Studies, Class Conflict
5 Apr 2016
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Diversity can bring us together and also tear us apart. Solution to the diversity that existed during this time. Separate political identities for ontario, qu bec, and the 2 maritime provinces (new brunswick and nova scotia) Compromise to agree together in a federation. 3 distinct people first nations :30,000 people 1% of population. French 1. 25 million (85% are in quebec) British 60% of the population: loyalists, immigrants, and their descendants. Remaining 8% immigrants from europe or emancipated and escaped slaves from the usa. In born qualities that let certain types (races) of people survive in different environments. The northern environment of canada was only suited to. Italians, greeks, poles (southern races) not suited to survive in. Large population of slaves came to new france , who later formed settlements in the maritimes and ontario during the civil war in states. Wave of immigration from europe between 1880 and 1914, described as the mightiest movement of the people in modern history.
