HIST277 Lecture Notes - Dominion Lands Act, Red River Rebellion, Immigration Policy
11 Nov 2013
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Goal: settlement and development of the western areas. Possibility for social disorder, violence, lawlessness: red river rebellion 1869. Land settlement policy: dominion lands act 1872. Immigration policy: settlement requires massive numbers of immigrants. Conflict: economic need and preference for british immigrants. Racial theories inform immigration policy: preference for british immigrants, failure to attract british. Focus on immigrants from rural central and eastern europe: success in immigration. Change to immigration policy 1906: amended with more prohibited categories. Reflect the moral and social order concerns of the era. Further amends 1910, 1923: allow for exclusion based on ethnicity. Objectives of native policy: to avoid conflict, to assimilate natives. Treaty negotiations: arrange for surrender of land and removal to reserves 1871-77. Indian act 1876: objective is to assimilate, premise is that native people are inferior and in need of supervision and care. To ensure peaceful and orderly settlement: to guard canadian sovereignty, to aid settlement and adaptation of immigrants.
