Choosing Canada as Home ch. 6 of Many Gifts

By 1867, the non-Aboriginal population was (a)   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 (a)   to Canada during the War of 1812.

Between 1880 and 1885, about 15, 000 workers came from China to work on the (a)   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 (a)   on Canada's Prairies.

Russians, Finnish, Scottish and Irish immigrants worked in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec or nearby towns in the (a)   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 (a)   in other countries brought many immigrants to Canada.