HIS263Y1 Lecture : factories, farms and bunkhouses
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Farms, factories, bunkhouses: immigrants and canada during the boom years, despite oliver"s desire to keep out what he would deem as not ideal citizens" come to canada anyways because they are needed. Whatever the government says in terms of cultural desires in canadians undermines the economic needs of. Economic boom: largely tied to global conditions international events, expanding economy requires workers an farmers, partly from immigration. In a broader sense, there is a strong tendency to equate population growth to national prosperity. Immigrants were seen as potential producers, but also as potential consumers. The farming frontier (wheat: wheat = economic development. 1901: all of canada produced about 56 million bushels of wheat. By 1911 just the prairies produce 208 million (approx. The industrial frontier (transportation, resources: wage labour rather then commodity production, transportation: tremendous railway development. Moreover, many branches develop off the main lines. The age of light, soap, and water: the age of reform.
