HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Civilizing Mission, William Aberhart, Grenfell Mission
24 Jan 2017
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Factors of reform movements that canadians saw as threats to canadian society. Ex) telephone (voice being teleported), computers, tv (moving imagines and being developed technologies. Innovation today is nothing to the feeling they felt in the 19th century. Canadians panicked, thinking world was developing too rapidly videos), electricity people were mind blown over what was. Young single women were earning a wage and were more. Questions about (cid:498)what were the appropriate roles of men and women? (cid:499) Many reform movements during this period ran by christians, Christian some times churches, may also be more informal. Women played great role in reform movements, women organizations. Sought state intervention to address the concerns that they had. Solution = call upon provincial/federal government to legistate a solution to the problem. All reform groups shared this common goal. Threats to canadian society: alcohol consumption, prostitution, poverty, working conditions, child welfare, education, immigration, women"s rights. It christian evangelical reform movement, attempted to apply teaching of.
