HISTORY 2TT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Clifford Sifton, Anglo-Saxons, Manifest Destiny
16 Jan 2019
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Inclusion and exclusion through the building of canada: the relationship between immigration and immigration policies during this period. In 1872 the dominion of canada opens to west to colonial settlement: establish cheap land for settlers, 60 acres was available for purchase from the cpr and hbc. Clifford sifton: he becomes the minister of the interior in 1897 and he shapes canadas immigration policy moving into the 20th century, targets immigrants who can farm on the prairies, closing the american frontier, economic boom. "the last best west: the western prariers were marketed as a utopia. Mass immigration: 1896-1914 2. 5 million immigrants arrive, 2/3 of this group are british or american, purposefully by sifton because he wants to keep canada pure in religion and race, the rest are german, russian, austria-hungarian, scandinavian, and italian. Includes jews and several thousands turks (lebanese and syrians) Treaties: negotiated agreements between indigenous groups and first british authorities and then the.
