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Canada? What Canada?! Canada is a Corpse ..?! What do Rob Ford and John A. Macdonald have in common?

SCATTERGORIES

CANADA, CANADIAN
Beginning with the letter C Beginning with the letter M Famous Canadians "current, alive, present#

CANADA IN THE 1870S

1. The key Concept here is national identity 2. In Canada of 1871, nationalism was a strange word.! 3. The racial di$erences were deep, culture was regional, provincial animosity was bitter, and the idea of unity was hard to reach.! 4. Many Canadians had been drawn south to the US by the availability of land and the greater possibility and diversity of life.

CANADA IS A CORPSE
5. As 1870s began, 1/4 of all Canadians in North American were living south of the border.! 6. Idea of the frontier or the west was in the minds of Canadians, referring to America. 7. The idea was that a moving frontier was necessary for the life of a growing nation. Canadawas being denied this chance.! 8. The strongest pull on many Canadians, was not the name or idea of Canada as a country. Instead it was land!!liveable, workable, and protable land.

One english visitor to Canada at this time said: ! To the Canadian it is of sma! comfort what you think of his country. He has little patriotic pride in it himself. whatever pride of country a Canadian has, its object, for the most part, is outside Canada." Globe and Mail:! Canada, except by a mere play on words, is not a nation.

An Irish immigrant who left Canada said:! There is no galvanizing #energizing$ a corpse! Canada is dead % dead church, dead commerce, dead people. A poor, priest&ridden, politician&ridden, doctor&ridden, lawyer&ridden land. No energy, no enterprise, no snap.

CITY AND COUNTRY LIFE

9. country was controlled by land"owning class "merchants, professional people, farm owners#! 10. 3/4 of population lived in somewhat isolated farms. 11. Montreal, a population of 100,000 was really two cities %% French speaking and English speaking.

OTHER NOTABLE CITIES

12. Toronto, 50,000 at the time %% an overused village dominated by particular groups "Methodists, Tories, and Orangemen#.The smell was awful: fresh manure, discarded garbage, and stench of ten thousand outdoor toilets.! 13. Ottawa, as one critic noted: ! One doesnt know what can induce a man to accept the post of Governor&General unless he should be a misanthrope or have hosts of relations at home whom he is anxious to make distant

INDUSTRY
14. Industrial workers life was tough:! lower pay than Americans! Not much industry in the rst place. Of 4 million people, only 200,000 industry/labour jobs.

ONLY 3 MAJOR SPARE-TIME ACTIVITIES

landholders there was politics

for women, there was religion

for labourers and workers on farms and factories, there was strong drink

WORK AND LABOUR:

15. A man applying for a job was asked two questions: his politics and his religion %% his answers to both would determine whether he got the job or not.! 16. Alcohol at this time was the national pastime and national problem All this to sayit was not a wonder that many Canadians looked over the border to new possibilities, new promise, new potential.

WHAT ARE WE CONSUMING?

Turn to your partner and list together as many as you can:! your favourite shows! favourite movies! favourite musicians, artists! favourite authors

HOW MANY ARE CANADIAN?

Tally it up, how many total people or items! How many of those are Canadian?! 15/30? ! 5/20?

LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE US

17. Publicly vilied 18. BUT, it was also secretly admired.! 19. The US was also greatly feared:

MACDONALDS NATIONAL DREAM

This is one of the major reasons for why John A. Macdonald wishes to build a railway. Identity. Unity.