HISB40H3 Lecture Notes - Pacific Scandal, Protestantism, Canadian Identity
Document Summary
Hugh allen, pacific scandal, mackenzie, reciprocity (free trade), homesteaders, duck lake, The national policy, 1867-1885: nationhood and the national policy: creating a national economy, 1867-1873: sheer practical necessities which bought the colonies together, financial or military security. 3 policies made by the federal government: building of railroad, protective tariff: high custom duties, settlement of the west, politicians thought they cannot build national identity on language or religion because no common ground. Only route to national unity was through a national economy an economy in which the provinces would trade with each other and become dependent on them. West and east send raw materials to central canada and they sell it outwards and this would foster national unity as hoped: some people thought that national identity should be identified on strictly ethnic terms not economic. America, certain nationalistic purposes and saw this railroad as an economic route: east and west direction instead of north south with usa.
