economic problems 1870s-1890s & the national policy-1879
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Economic Problems 1870s-1890s
& The National Policy-1879
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Economic Problems in Canada
Problems in Canada:•People are not buying goods
from Canadian companies•People are not investing in
Canada
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No Jobs!• Companies don’t have enough
money• They cannot pay many people to
work• People lose their jobs• People cannot pay taxes to Canada
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The National Policy (NP)
• A plan to help Canada make money• John A. MacDonald started the plan
in 1876• 3 main ideas• Protect Canadian companies • Make a bigger railway for Canada• Bring more people to live in Canada immigrants
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Protect Canadian Companies
• Make American companies pay more taxes• Help Canadian companies make
more products• More people will have jobs• More jobs = more taxes for Canada• Tax money to build railway!
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Build a large railway for Canada
• Build a transcontinental railway• « Canadian Pacific Railway » finished in
1885• Companies used the railway to transport
raw materials, goods and people• Transport new immigrants to Western
Canada (settlers) to the Western plains
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Railway station near present day Calgary
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Last spike in the Transcontinental Railway
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Railway Workers
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Banff Springs Hotel Banff Alberta Built by the railway company
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Chinese immigrants used as labour to build the railway they were not treated nicely
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Chinese immigrant rail-workers camp
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Chinese immigrant rail-workers camp
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IMMIGRATION TO CANADA• Ask immigrants to move to Canada• Canada wanted immigrants from Europe
and the United States• 1.5 million immigrants moved to Canada
between 1871-1901• Western Canada• More immigrants meant more people to
pay taxes and buy Canadian products
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Immigrants from Eastern Europe arriving in Western Canada
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the National Policy (NP) in Quebec
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AGRICULTURE in Quebec 1870s-1890s
• Problems• Not enough fertile land
for farmers• Farming techniques that
were not working well• Farmers had a difficult
time growing enough for their families
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AGRICULTURE
• Canada asked farmers in Quebec to change• They asked farmers to switch the types of
farming they did• Wheat dairy farming, potatoes, tobacco…• The government of Canada opened up schools
for farming in Quebec to teach farmers
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