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Canada at the Turn of the Century: A Glimpse into Pre-World War I Era

Explore Canadian society, politics, and economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries through the lens of Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier's vision and the challenges faced by the nation. Learn about Victorian influences, immigrant populations, urbanization, and economic developments shaping Canada before World War I.

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Canada at the Turn of the Century: A Glimpse into Pre-World War I Era

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  1. The Turn of the Century Canada before World War I

  2. The Beginning of an Age? • Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier: • “Let me tell you, my fellow countrymen, that the twentieth century shall be the century of Canada and of Canadian development. For the next seventy-five years, nay for the next 100 years, Canada shall be the star towards which all men who love progress and freedom shall come.”

  3. Society and Manners Victorian Influence • Moral strictness • Go to church • Support Britain • Honour, virtue, and duty • Laziness was abominable • Family support • Courtship • Suffragists

  4. Society and Manners Arts and Leisure • Sentimental art and literature • Outdoor entertainment

  5. One Nation, Under Britain • Own government, but still a colony (couldn’t resolve disputes with other countries) • Imperialists • Nationalist

  6. Population of Canada • Easy entry... IF... • Ethnocentric • Eastern Europeans • Chinese, Japanese, and East Indians • R.B. Bennett: “British Columbia must remain a white man’s country” • Head Tax, 1907 Riots • KomagataMaru, 1914

  7. Population of Canada • Displacement of Aboriginal peoples • Indian Act, 1876 • Reserves • Residential schools • Assimiliation

  8. Urbanization • Contrasts from growing cities • Health problems • Immigrants

  9. Canadian Economy • Export of natural resources • Panama Canal, 1914 • Mining • Electricity • Corporations grew • Trade Unions • Recession by 1914 • Environmental destruction

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