history chap 7-8

By AY24
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    1867 - 1948 - British children from ages 8 to 16 are sent to live in Canada.

  • 1876 - Residential schools are made for the First Nations. The students were treated horribly, some schools even stripped the child of their name, By 1884, 27 students attended the 3 residential schools already made,

  • 1884 - The federal government forbids the potlatch ceremony, a gift giving ceremony shared among the First Nation peoples. Until 1951, anyone caught participating in potlatch would be jailed for two to six months.

  • 1885 - Canada Government introduces the "head tax", a sum of money a Chinese immigrant would need to pay to enter the country.

    When the head tax was introduced in 1885, it was a 50 dollar tax to enter Canada to prevent Chinese immigrants from living there. By 1903, the head tax became a large 500 dollar fee.

  • 1889 - After the son of Adelaide Hoodless dies from drinking contaminated milk, she devoted her life to educating women about food, safety, nutrition and hygiene.

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    1896 - 1914 - Canada's population rises from 5 million to 8 million. 170,000 Ukrainian immigrants settle in the Praries

    Plenty of immigrants moved to Canada to live a better life. Canadians also encouraged the Ukrainians to immigrate to Canada.
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    1896 - 1905 - Clifford Sifton stands as the minister of the interior of the Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier Government.

  • 1898 - Doctors were sent around the country to assist the rural and the sick, but in 1898, doctors were sent to fight the Klondike Typhoid epidemic

  • 1905 - Frank Oliver replaces Frank Sifton as the minister of the interior.

  • 1906 - Frank Oliver introduces the Immigration Act, an act to discourage immigrants.

  • 1996 - The last residential school closes. The government made an official apology to all the former residential students.