Category: Canadian Studies

Describe the many attempts by Quebec and Canada to change the framework of the Canadian nation between 1980 and 2000. Looking for explanations for 6 events during this period.

Attempts at constitutional change:

Describe the many attempts by Quebec and Canada to change the framework of the Canadian nation between 1980 and 2000. Looking for explanations for 6 events during this period.

Discuss the establishment of residential schools for native children in Canada through the Indian Act of 1876. Why did they do it? What happened in the schools? What are the lasting effects of this school system on native people today? Include Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation – what is that all about?

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Answer all parts of these 2 questions. Remember that 2 pages is the minimum, not the maximum for each question.

Question 1: Residential Schools (Use 3 sources)
Discuss the establishment of residential schools for native children in Canada through the Indian Act of 1876. Why did they do it? What happened in the schools? What are the lasting effects of this school system on native people today? Include Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation – what is that all about?

Question 2: the Quebec Act (Use 3 sources)
Discuss the six main provisions (or 6 main points) of the Quebec Act of 1774 that we went over in class. Explain how this British law affected the Catholic Church, the rich landowners and business classes, and why it was a threat to the 13 American colonies on the eve of the Revolutionary War.

What differences do you see between Barnholden’s explanation for why the 1907 riot happened and the explanation of white worker’s racism by thinkers from the other files posted? (Ignatiev and dubois)

Understanding the Vancouver 1907 anti-Chinese worker’s riot

In 1907, thousands of white workers marched into and attacked businesses and apartments owned, worked, and lived in by Chinese men. Historians have been divided on the cause of this event. Some say it was because whites were duped by cunning capitalists who set one group of workers against another during a time of economic downturn and spreading joblessness. Others say it demonstrated these white workers’ identification and commitment to whiteness and making western Canada a “white man’s country.” Neither of these explanations addresses the underlying problem of why white workers would participate in the racialization of Chinese people, and themselves, nor what they get out of identifying with ‘whiteness’.

What differences do you see between Barnholden’s explanation for why the 1907 riot happened and the explanation of white worker’s racism by thinkers from the other files  posted? (Ignatiev and dubois)

Explain the differences between these explanations and the consequences of Barnholden’s explanation for class struggle.

Create your own argument explaining the riot, using the ideas about the “wages of whiteness”

https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/settlement-immigration/the-lessons-of-the-anti-asiatic-riot- this is barnholds article which i could not find in pdf