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Completing Confederation. BC: Gold Rush…. Take aways …. General historical overview of the locales, main events, and major participants involved in the Cariboo Gold Rush. Various socio-political, economic, and technological issues related to the Gold Rush are also introduced.
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Completing Confederation BC: Gold Rush…
Take aways… • General historical overview of the locales, main events, and major participants involved in the Cariboo Gold Rush. • Various socio-political, economic, and technological issues related to the Gold Rush are also introduced. • Society and Culture: Canada from 1815 to 1914 • It is expected that students will: • identify the influence of immigration on, and the contributions of immigrants to, the development of Canada • Environment: Canada from 1815 to 1914It is expected that students will: • construct, interpret, and use graphs, tables, grids, scales, legends, contours, and various types of maps • analyse how geography influenced the economic, historical, and cultural development of western Canada • Comprehend and Respond • It is expected that students will: • make generalizations, supported by specific details and examples, about the key concepts, characters, and themes of written, oral, and visual works • interpret details and draw conclusions about the information presented in a variety of illustrations, maps, charts, graphs, and other graphic forms
A window into… • personal experience: expatriation, travel • societal change: population growth, immigration, impact on and role of Aboriginal peoples • transportation technology: steamboat and/or stagecoach travel • mining technology: gold pan, sluice box • governmental supervision: licensing, provision of law and order • secondary economic activities: retail trade, provision of transportation • immigration: growth of towns and facilities • infrastructure changes: road building, construction of houses and public buildings • communications: newspapers established
Global Context… • T'ai Ping Rebellion - famine and war in China • Great Exhibition in London - inventions of the Industrial Revolution • Crimean War - Florence Nightingale reforms nursing • British Empire continues to grow under Queen Victoria's reign • India becomes a colony of Britain • Suez Canal opens in Africa • American Civil War • Franco-Prussian War • Gold Rush in Australia and New Zealand • Gold Rush on Fraser River and Cariboo; Colony of British Columbia • Famine in Ireland • Dominion of Canada established • Meiji Period in Japan -industrialization and parliament; • German Empire created Major events in world history providing an overview of why people came to the goldfields...
Consequences of the Gold Rush Era • economic boom-and-bust cycle • immigration from diverse sources; increased non-native population with whom the Aboriginal peoples come into contact • demands for infrastructure (road building, construction of housing) • short-term rapid rise in prices of all basic commodities, housing, and land • political ferment as population expands • short-term economic growth opportunities: accommodation, transportation • eventual movement towards confederation with the Dominion of Canada • growth of large public debt to provide services and infrastructure, especially the Cariboo Wagon Road • demands on government services and the bureaucracy
Consequences of the Gold Rush Era • POLITICAL • political ferment as population expands • eventual movement towards confederation with the Dominion of Canada • demands on government services and the bureaucracy • ECONOMIC • economic boom-and-bust cycle • short-term economic growth opportunities: accommodation, transportation • demands for infrastructure (road building, construction of housing) • short-term rapid rise in prices of all basic commodities, housing, and land • growth of large public debt to provide services and infrastructure, especially the Cariboo Wagon • Road • SOCIAL • immigration from diverse sources; increased non-native population with whom the Aboriginal • peoples come into contact