FRHD 1020 Lecture 2: HISTORY
29 May 2018
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HISTORY, CULTURE AND CANADIAN FAMILIES
• Race and Ethnicity
o Concepts
▪ Race
• Physical characteristics
▪ Ethnicity
• Cultural heritage
o Census
▪ 1871
• first census
• Canadians asked about, age, sex religion and race
▪ 1891
• no question about race
▪ 1901-1941
• question about race
o eventually dropped
• asked to identify ethnic origin instead
o complicated
▪ definition=fluid
▪ influenced by understanding/view at time
▪ more intermarriage=more multiple ancestries
▪ census changes
▪ 1996
• first time census asked Canadians if they were a member of a
visible minority
o Chinese
o South Asian
o Black
o Arab
o West Indian
o Filipino
o Southeast Asian
o Latin American
o Japanese
o Korean
o NOT Aboriginal
▪ First nations
▪ Inuit
▪ Metis
• First time census provided Canadian as an ethnic origin
o Groups
▪ Dominant
• Greatest power
• Not necessarily greatest in numbers
▪ Minority
• Less power
• Characteristics of the Canadian Population
o Aboriginal peoples
▪ Groups
• Clan lineages
o Iroquois
▪ Conflicts settled by consensus
o Pacific Coast
▪ Conflicts settled by feasts and potlatches
• Small migratory hunting
o Inuit, Anishinaabe, Swampy cree
• Plains buffalo hunting
o Blackfoot
▪ Family is
• Parents and children living together
• Extended network of other relatives
▪ Population growing because
• Increased
o Child bearing age
o Self-identifying
o Complete counting
o English Canadians
▪ Masculine
o French Canadians
▪ Feminine
o Other immigrant groups
▪ 1901
• 25 different ethnic groups in Canada
• majority
o aboriginal
o British
o French
▪ 2006
• 200 different ethnic groups
▪ 2031
• between 25 and 28 % of the world will be foreign born
o asia
o visible minority
▪ majority will live in cities
• Toronto
• Vancouver
