Chapter 3: Canada's Cultural Diversity

The union of present-day Ontario, Québec , Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick in 1867.

• Conscription
• Constitution
• Commonwealth
• Confederation

A person who migrates to another country, usually for permanent residence.

• Sponsor
• Immigrant
• Refugee
• Anglophone

A period lasting in Canada from the stock market crash in 1929 till the beginning of WWII in 1939 when economic conditions were very poor.

• Great Migration
• Great Revolution
• Industrial Revolution
• Great Depression

People forced to leave their homeland due to war or persecution.

• Sponsor
• Patron

• Refugee
• Separatist

The absorption of a minority group into a dominant cultural group.

• Integration
• Segregation
• Cultural Genocide
• Assimilation

The policy of keeping different cultural groups separate from each other.

• Integration
• Segregation
• Cultural Genocide
• Assimilation

The bringing together of different cultural groups as equal parts of a whole.

• Assimilation
• Integration
• Segregation
• Cultural Genocide

The intentional and systematic extermination of a race of people or nation.

• Genocide
• Integration
• Assimilation
• Segregation

The process of undermining, suppressing, and ultimately eliminating, indigenous cultures. The deliberate destruction of the cultural heritage of a people or nation for political or military reasons.

• Assimilation
• Cultural Genocide
• Segregation

• Integration

In Canada, a person who agrees to support an immigrant applying for permanent resident status.

• Immigrant
• Refugee
• Sponsor
• Independent