The Turn of the Century

The Turn of the Century Canada before World War I

The Beginning of an Age? • Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier: • “Let me tell you, my fellow countrymen, that the twentieth century shall be the century of Canada and of Canadian development. For the next seventy-five years, nay for the next 100 years, Canada shall be the star towards which all men who love progress and freedom shall come.”

Society and Manners Victorian Influence • Moral strictness • Go to church • Support Britain • Honour, virtue, and duty • Laziness was abominable • Family support • Courtship • Suffragists

Society and Manners Arts and Leisure • Sentimental art and literature • Outdoor entertainment

One Nation, Under Britain • Own government, but still a colony (couldn’t resolve disputes with other countries) • Imperialists • Nationalist

Population of Canada • Easy entry... IF... • Ethnocentric • Eastern Europeans • Chinese, Japanese, and East Indians • R.B. Bennett: “British Columbia must remain a white man’s country” • Head Tax, 1907 Riots • KomagataMaru, 1914

Population of Canada • Displacement of Aboriginal peoples • Indian Act, 1876 • Reserves • Residential schools • Assimiliation

Urbanization • Contrasts from growing cities • Health problems • Immigrants

Canadian Economy • Export of natural resources • Panama Canal, 1914 • Mining • Electricity • Corporations grew • Trade Unions • Recession by 1914 • Environmental destruction

The Turn of the Century

The Turn of the Century

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Life at the Turn of the Century

Life at the Turn of the Century

Turn of the Century Literature

Turn of the Century

Turn of the Century

Chapter eight: The Turn of the century

Turn of the Century US Expansion

Canada at the Turn of the Century

Canada at the Turn of the Century

Turn of the Century

Turn of the Century Literature

Turn of the Century America

The turn of the 19 th century

US at the Turn of the Century

TURN of the CENTURY DIPLOMACY

Changes at the Turn of the Century

The Turn of The Century

Turn of the Century Urban Culture

Life at the Turn of the Century

BROADWAY AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY

Immigration at the Turn of the Century

Life at the Turn of the Century