1. Unit 1:
Chapter 1 A Different Nation: Canada enters the twentieth century

2. Chapter Summary Chapter 1: A Different Nation: Canada Enters the Twentieth Century
This chapter presents a general overview of Canada at the turn of the century and lays the foundation for ideas that will be explored throughout the history chapters in Units 1 and 2.
It looks at Canada as an emerging independent nation and the challenges it faced, including defining its relationship to Britain, and addressing regionalism and Québec nationalism, both of which had an impact on Canadian unity.
The chapter also examines societal attitudes and how they influenced political policies concerning women, immigrants, and Aboriginal peoples.
These concepts serve as a launching point to explore how these attitudes and policies changed as Canada developed as a nation.

3. The Aboriginal population was declining in the early 1900s
Due to disease;
poor diet;
inadequate housing.
Ques. What were residential schools?
Boarding schools for Aboriginal children.
Aboriginal children faced some problems in these schools:
  Overcrowding and unsanitary conditions.

4. Based on what you may have read in the media or seen on TV, what other impacts did residential schools have on Aboriginal children and their culture
ANS: Separation from their family and culture; abuse in many forms.
Define assimilation.
To draw a group (e.g. Aboriginal people) into mainstream Canadian life and extinguish their own cultural traditions.
Aboriginal people often resisted assimilation.
  -Valued their own way of life and traditions.

5. think-pair-share strategy List questions you would ask the people who live in the houses pictured in Figure 1-10 (page 14) of your Text book, if you could meet them.

6. Possible Questions: 1. How many people live in your house?
2. How many rooms are there?
3. Where do you eat, sleep, and relax?
4. Do the parents and children have separate bedrooms?
5. Do you have any servants?
6. What do you do to earn a living?
7. Where do you store your clothes, shoes, and boots?
8. What do you burn in your stoves, and are you warm enough in the winter?
9. Do you have electricity, oil lamps, indoor plumbing, outdoor privies, animals?
10. Do your children go to school or do they work outside the home?

7. Urbanization
List the luxuries that wealthy city dwellers often enjoyed in this era.
 Servant.
 Houses lit by electricity.
 Central hot water heat.
 Running water.
List characteristics of the living conditions of working class people in cities around 1910.
 Lived in shacks or crowded tenements.
 No running water or sewer.
 Pollution from nearby factories.
 Disease was common

8. page 15
Innovations: Farther and Faster
Continuity and Change and Historical Significance

9. Discuss the following questions:
How significant were these four innovations—the telephone, telegraph, bicycle, and airplane—by 1914 and how much change did they create at that time?
Which do you think had the broadest impact and affected the most Canadians at that time?
Which innovations are widely used by Canadians today? Rank these innovations in descending order based on those most commonly used in Canada today.

10. Identify three important Canadian exports in the early 1900s.
 Lumber, wheat, minerals.
What impact did the use of electricity have on Canada’s industry?
 Permitted bigger and better machines which increased production.
Identify several consumer goods that became popular in this era.
 Canada Dry; Shredded Wheat; Palmolive Soap; Heinz ketchup; the 5¢ chocolate bar; telephones.

11. The end

12. Review questions: Define assimilation.
List characteristics of the living conditions of working class people in cities around 1910.

14. Statistics of Canada
Occupations of the gainfully employed population of Canada, by gender, number and percentage, 1911 and 1921

17. Define trade union 
Groups of workers who try to get better pay and working conditions from their employer.
Workers may go on strike:
-Better pay;
-reduced hours of work;
-safer working conditions.

18. Class work
page 13
Building Your Skills: Analyzing Evidence: Primary and Secondary Sources
Interpret and Analyze
Question 1-3

19. A decline in the economy resulting in less employment and production.
Corporate giants
What is a recession?
A decline in the economy resulting in less employment and production.
Why do you think Canada’s economy was in a recession in 1914?
 Result of retrenching after two decades of rapid growth.

20. page 16
Figure 1–11

21. page 16 Figure 1–11
The Internet has made access to information and communication instant, connecting people around the world and creating a global society.
-changes in technology that have led to demand for more fuel efficient and environmentally friendly products, including cars.

22. Project:
What were three key sectors in the Canadian economy between 1900 and 1914? How has this changed in the present day? What were working conditions like for people in these three sectors in 1914? How do they compare today?