Introduction to Canada“BEFORE HISTORY CLASS STARTS”

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Map of Canada in 1905

Canadian Geographic, Historical Maps of Canada: 1905, 2014, https://www.canadiangeographic.ca/mapping/historical_maps/1905.asp (Jan. 27, 2014)

Map of Canada

What differences do you notice from the 1905 map?

Canada’s Population in 1914

Canada’s Population Today – how is it different?

35,295,7706.8 million foreign-born

= 20.6% of the population62.5% of recent immigrants live in Toronto,

Montreal or Vancouver

Statistics Canada, Home Page, 2014, http://www.statcan.gc.ca/start-debut-eng.html (Jan. 27, 2014); Statistics Canada, 2011 National Household Survey: Immigration, place of birth…, May 8, 2013, http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/130508/dq130508b-eng.htm (Jan. 27, 2014).

Canada’s Immigrants Today

Place of birth of the immigrant population of Canada, 2001-2006

Asia and Middle East

Africa

Europe and Russia

Central America, Caribbean, South America

North America (excluding Canada)

Oceania and other Pacific Islands

What differences do you notice from the 1905 population?

Where Canadians Lived

How did our population change over time?

PERSIAT = a way to study a country by looking at different categories

• Political• Economic • Religious• Social (cultural)• Intellectual• Artistic• Technological

Which letter of PERSIAT?

Which letter of PERSIAT?

Which letter of PERSIAT?

Which letter of PERSIAT

Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Annual Report on the Operation of the Canadian Multiculturalism Act, 2010-11, Feb. 9, 2012, http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/publications/multi-report2011/part1.asp (Feb. 2, 2013).

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What Does Canada Look Like?

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9MkWiI8Tcc– Over Canada video