Homesteading

Go to this link and look at the picture at the top of an early homestead.

Look closely and study the picture. This a primary source of information. Look closely at the other pictures, they give a lot of information. 

Answer below

Read the letter that follows a little below the picture of the early home, at #3.
1. What would be different about a picnic today and one a hundred years ago?

2.What would be still the same?

Read #9

3. An acre is about the size of a soccer field. How long would it take to break it? How much would this cost if you hired someone?

Read #10, 

4. What advice does the woman give that applies today to people looking for relationships online?


Thinking and using your general knowledge

5 . What food would homesteaders here on the prairies eat come April?

When done, quietly read the other information on the pages and/or pick up your reading book, and/or onto your writing. 

Homesteading on the Prairies

Canada advertised for immigrants as soon after Manitoba joined confederation  Britain was one part where they advertised. Canada also advertised in other parts of Europe. People coming from many different countries posed some worries here in Canada. To combat those worries, settlers from the United States were preferred 

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Be sure to do the readings and look at the pictures in the blog posting below. Which poster is trying to attract people from . . . Blog your answers below using the picture numbers. 

1. Britain

2. France or Belgium

3. A part of Europe that isn't English or French

4. The United States

Find an advertisement that is trying to attract

5. City dwellers
6. Women

Find an advertisement that is

7. After 1905
8. Before 1885

When done examining the posters, design and create your own poster to attract immigrants to Winnipeg. Remember, have a focus for your poster. What are the Push-Pull forces? The poster may be done on paper or on the computer. Here are some things that are special about Winnipeg and a few more reasons to live in Winnipeg here and here is the government's pitch to attract residents. 

The National Dream

For homesteading to happen, the people presently living on the prairies had to be dealt with. This was the numbered treaties as mentioned in previous blogs.  Read here about that

1. Manitoba Confederation, B.C. Confederation, the signing of the treaties then the engineering feet of the railway across Canada. This is all done for what?

-Then to help with the transformation to an agricultural economy, and solidify the country, this was built. 

Then the wave of immigration 

Coming to Manitoba

Free land, well, not quite free, and you had to do a few things, and the deal was only available to certain people

National Dream

Now that Canada had all that land in the West, they needed to solidify their ownership. They also were trying to entice British Columbia into Canada. The solution they came up with was to build a railway to enable setters to come to Western Canada to farm and ship their wheat around the world. The railway would also enable B.C. to be connected to the rest of Canada. Much of Canada's history has been resisting the pulls North and South. The people of the Maritimes on the East coast traded North and South with their ships. The people on the prairies travelled North and South on the prairies. The people on the West coast travelled North and South, having the Rockies as a barrier to going East. 

For homesteading to happen, the people presently living on the prairies had to be dealt with. This was the numbered treaties as mentioned in a previous blog.  More information here about our history

1. Manitoba Confederation, B.C. Confederation, the signing of the treaties then the engineering feet of the railway across Canada. This is all done for what? (hint-sett___  to fa__)

-More details here on the railway that helped  to erase the buffalo and make wheat king, and that also tied the country together East to West.

2. More about  the Canadian Pacific Railway here.  How did the railway make a difference with how the Canadian government treated Riel's led rebellions of 1870 and 1885?







 



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More about the CPR here

3. Besides money, how would you compensate the CPR for building the railway? Think of what Canada has lots and lots  to offer (hint, where Ingenious people used to live).



Then the wave of immigration