HIS 1101 Chapter 9: Chapter 9 – Prospering Together, 1945-1960.docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: History
• Course: HIS 1101
• Professor: Polec Patryk

Document Summary

1960: almost all aspects of planning in both the public and private sectors were based on assumptions of constant growth, and such thinking seemed to work, which increased the standard of living for canadians, foreign trade was an important component, agriculture declined from 25 per cent of the total workforce in 1946 to 11 per cent in 1961, the resource economy did reasonably well, especially when imperial oil bought in a major oil field in 1947. Immigration: canada entered ww2 with neither an immigration of refuge policy sufficient for the situations for the situations in which it would soon find itself, by the end of 1945, perhaps 2 million refugees and other displaced persons remained in allied territory, mostly in germany, austria, and italy, canadian officials did not want to accept immigrants from these camps, after months of debate in the canadian press and in the cabinet, king insisted that.