HIS326Y5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Usera, Religious Persecution, Cash Crop
Document Summary
A harvest yet to reap pages 11 to 84. The history of women of the canadian prairies date back from less than 300 years ago when fur traders moved west from hudson"s bay and st. lawrence valley to set up shop along major inland waterways. The first european woman known to have visited the prairies was wise to come disguised as a man. This made the westward push of the american frontier made it increasingly necessary: the westward expansion of agriculture had made. American industry boom; the settlement could do the same for canadians, providing they could stake their claim to the prairies first. The prairies offered thousands of square miles of sun warmed prosperity and opportunity, for the settlers and the children. Married women came for the same reasons as the men, for: came from eastern canada, great britain and usa, religious persecution, political oppression, thin stony farmland, factory-town grime.
