Choosing Canada as Home ch. 6 of Many Gifts

By 1867, the non-Aboriginal population was _____________ than the Aboriginal (First Nations) population.

Black Loyalists had an opportunity to change their lives after the American Revolution resulting in the following except one.

• They were promised land

• Freedom from slavery

• 500, 000 Black Loyalists headed north.

• About half of the Black Loyalists settled near Shelburne, Nova Scotia

• They experience discrimination and violence in Nova Scotia because they were black.

Métis and fur traders who lived in Red River Colony were angry settlers from ______________ moved there because it interrupted hunting and fur __________.

• Scotland, trading

• England, hunting

• Scotland, hunting

• None of the above

There was little ________________ to Canada during the War of 1812.

Between 1880 and 1885, about 15, 000 workers came from China to work on the _____________ in British Columbia.

Identify all the questions that are true in the following.

• There was a gold rush in Yukon around 1897.

• About 7 million people made it to Yukon.

• Boomtown communities grew quickly.

• Electricity and phone service were running in some of the communities.

In the 1800s many European countries such as Poland, Ukraine, and Denmark settled on _____________ on Canada's Prairies.

Russians, Finnish, Scottish and Irish immigrants worked in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec or nearby towns in the _______________ industry.

Identify all the sentences that are true about Irish Immigration to Canada.

• Hundreds of thousands of Immigrants come between 1845 and 1851.

• A disease attached the potatoes in Ireland so families were devastated, extremely poor and starving.

• Irish Immigrants took years to get to Canada.

• Many Catholic Irish Immigrants were discriminated by others because of poverty and religion.

In the 1900s, political unrest and ___________ in other countries brought many immigrants to Canada.