HIS263Y1 Lecture : lecture note
Document Summary
1880s-1920s, canadians and north americans were very taken up with reform there were a number of groups addressing issues that they thought were emerging in industrial canada the typical reformer championed several causes. These reformers existed in an international network of ideas. The typical reformer was white, middle-class and protestant. The practical solutions to the problems were typically described in very broad terms. Many saw reform as a grand project to regenerate society and the human soul. They described their problems with a mixed language that adapted older categories to a new set of problems. Reform is not a coherent movement but rather a general impulse. Tried to deal with the problem of immigrant life particularly in the city. An imported idea that originated in the united states and britain. Imported and spread to most major cities in canada. Most famous is the all people mission in winnipeg. Head of this organization for a long time was j. s.
