Chapter Four Questions

All questions must be answered with complete sentences. Failure to use sentences means an automatic 0%!!

1. What forms Canada’s identity and how does this happen?

2. There are a number of theories about the origins of the first inhabitants of Canada. Explain in detail the land bridge theory.

3. Explain the new theories that challenge the land bridge theory.

4. What do many Inuit and First Nations believe?

5. What does the word migrate mean?

6. What are the two reasons geographers give as reason for migration. Explain each in detail.

7. What is meant by “government policy controls immigration”?

8. Canada attempts to promote an identity based on peace, justice, human rights and multiculturalism. What is meant by multiculturalism? Explain.

9. In the past, Canadians were more ethnocentric. What does this mean? What happened as a result of this policy? Be sure to include the definition of prejudice.

10. What was government policy based on under an ethnocentric government? Explain discrimination.

11. Give four examples of a racist immigration policy.

12. When did immigration reach a peak in Canada?

13. Why did immigration reach this peak?

14. Why, by the 1920’s did the flow of immigration start to slow? What were the immigrants doing for jobs at this time?

15. What did the Great Depression of the 1930’s do to change the governments policy on immigration and why?

16. What affect did the Second World War have on Canada and especially on the attitudes towards refugees? Define what a refugee is (page 64).