Map of Canada in 1905
Canadian Geographic, Historical Maps of Canada: 1905, 2014, https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/mapping/historical_maps/1905.asp (Jan. 27, 2014)
Canada’s Population Today – how is it different?
35,295,7706.8 million foreign-born
= 20.6% of the population62.5% of recent immigrants live in Toronto,
Montreal or Vancouver
Statistics Canada, Home Page, 2014, http://www.statcan.gc.ca/start-debut-eng.html (Jan. 27, 2014); Statistics Canada, 2011 National Household Survey: Immigration, place of birth…, May 8, 2013, http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/130508/dq130508b-eng.htm (Jan. 27, 2014).
Canada’s Immigrants Today
Place of birth of the immigrant population of Canada, 2001-2006
Asia and Middle East
Africa
Europe and Russia
Central America, Caribbean, South America
North America (excluding Canada)
Oceania and other Pacific Islands
What differences do you notice from the 1905 population?
PERSIAT = a way to study a country by looking at different categories
• Political• Economic • Religious• Social (cultural)• Intellectual• Artistic• Technological
Which letter of PERSIAT
Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Annual Report on the Operation of the Canadian Multiculturalism Act, 2010-11, Feb. 9, 2012, http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/publications/multi-report2011/part1.asp (Feb. 2, 2013).
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What Does Canada Look Like?
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9MkWiI8Tcc– Over Canada video