HIS263Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Industrial Revolution, Anti-Clericalism, Sugar Refinery
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The cpr was completed in 1885, in the mountain in bc. The indian act objective was to assimilate the native people. If (cid:374)ati(cid:448)e people (cid:449)ere(cid:374)"t goi(cid:374)g to assi(cid:373)ilate or (cid:449)ork to(cid:449)ards (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)i(cid:374)g (cid:449)hite e(cid:374)glish speaking canadians, more imposing methods were seemed as necessary. Residential schools were introduced, they were taken away from native communities and forced into boarding school. Macdonald thought that canada should have more central government and, provisional and other governments should become sub government. Federalism was confirmed in the first generation of confederation: bilingualism was not, bna act stated that gov of canada and quebec would be bilingual. Manitoba act made red river colony bilingual. When canada was formed in its modern formed, it was roughly half and half. Almost no french canadian migrated to the west. Thus in 1885 bilingualism was demolished by the government in. French canadians were weary that their english canadian neighbors would not tolerate them in the west.
