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Economic Problems 1870s-1890s

Economic Problems 1870s-1890s. & The National Policy-1879. Economic Problems in Canada. Problems i n Canada: People are not buying goods from Canadian companies People are not investing in Canada. No Jobs!. Companies don’t have enough money They cannot pay many people to work

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Economic Problems 1870s-1890s

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  1. Economic Problems 1870s-1890s & The National Policy-1879

  2. Economic Problems in Canada Problems in Canada: • People are not buying goods from Canadian companies • People are not investing in Canada

  3. No Jobs! • Companies don’t have enough money • They cannot pay many people to work • People lose their jobs • People cannot pay taxes to Canada

  4. The National Policy (NP) • A plan to help Canada make money • John A. MacDonald started the plan in 1876 • 3 main ideas • ProtectCanadian companies • Make a bigger railway for Canada • Bring more people to live in Canada  immigrants

  5. Protect Canadian Companies • Make American companies pay more taxes • Help Canadian companies make more products • More people will have jobs • More jobs = more taxes for Canada • Tax money to build railway!

  6. Build a large railway for Canada • Build a transcontinentalrailway • « Canadian Pacific Railway »  finished in 1885 • Companiesused the railway to transportrawmaterials, goodsand people • Transport new immigrants to Western Canada (settlers) to the Western plains

  7. Railway station near present day Calgary

  8. Last spike in the Transcontinental Railway

  9. Railway Workers

  10. Banff Springs Hotel  Banff Alberta  Built by the railway company

  11. Chinese immigrants used as labour to build the railway  they were not treated nicely

  12. Chinese immigrant rail-workers camp

  13. Chinese immigrant rail-workers camp

  14. IMMIGRATION TO CANADA • Ask immigrants to move to Canada • Canada wanted immigrants fromEurope and the United States • 1.5 million immigrants moved to Canada between 1871-1901 • Western Canada • More immigrants meant more people to pay taxes and buy Canadian products

  15. Immigrants from Eastern Europe arriving in Western Canada

  16. the National Policy (NP) in Quebec

  17. AGRICULTURE in Quebec 1870s-1890s • Problems • Not enough fertile land for farmers • Farming techniques that were not working well • Farmershad a difficult time growingenough for theirfamilies

  18. AGRICULTURE • Canada asked farmers in Quebec to change • They asked farmers to switch the types of farming they did • Wheat  dairy farming, potatoes, tobacco… • The government of Canada opened up schools for farming in Quebec to teach farmers

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