Finish WWII Presentations
Wed, Feb 8
Political and social change in Canada after World War II: Overview Notes
Political and social change in Canada after World War II: Overview Notes
Study Groups:
1. Discrimination (Africville, Inuit, Women's Rights)
2. French Canada
3. Diefenbaker/ Lester Pearson
4. Regional Disparity
5. Avro Arrow
6. Canada and the Cold War
Fri, Feb 10
Study Groups
Tue, Feb 14
Group Presentation and Panel Discussions
Thur, Feb 16
Group Presentations and Panel Discussion
Tue, Feb 21
In-class essay
Canada between 1968 and 2000 (Text book, pp. 342-410)
Thur, Feb 23
The Trudeau Era and Canada as an emerging nation in the World: Overview Notes
Mon, Feb 27
Study Groups:
1. Canada and the Third World
2. Trudeau/ Mulroney/ Chretien
3. National Energy Program
4. Canada-U.S. Relations
5. Patriation of the Constitution/ Meech Lake
6. Aboriginal People
7. Defining Canada
Wed, Feb 29 (Assemblies)
Study Groups
Fri, Mar 2
Group Presentation and Panel Discussion
Tue, Mar 6 (Term ends)
Group Presentation and Panel Discussion
Thur, Mar 8
In-class Essay
Effect of WW II on Canada
1. Population Changes: Natural Increase (Baby Boomers), Migration, Refugees, Displaced Persons (DPs): influx into western Canada and major Canadian cities. Result: Suburbia. Effect: Increasingly multicultural society. Two-car families.
2. Counter-culture: Holocaust, Human Rights: Young people blame older generation for war.
3. Continued segregation of minorities (Blacks, Asians, Aboriginals). Emergence of the hyphenated Canadian. Inuits as "human flagpoles". Women continue to be treated as second-class citizens when returning war vets wanted their jobs back. Result: increased feminism and Royal Commission on the Status of Women.
4. French Canadians: "La survivance"
5. Regional disparities. the west as Ontario's hinterland
Key Issues:
How to deal with the needs of new Canadians.
How to guarantee equal participation and acceptance of all Canadians
How to keep Canada united and deal with regional alienation
6. Canada-U.S. relations. Canada's population in relation to that of the US continues at a ratio of 1:10 (implication: relative weakness in economic terms). Economic ties that started with Branch Plants in the 1920s continue: St. Lawrence Seaway, Auto Pact, Acid Rain remained a concern until Mulroney and George Bush could agree on a solution.
7. As Canadian and American economies became more intertwined,Americans continued to take Canada for granted: to strengthen Canadian autonomy and sovereignty, Trudeau initiated the Foreign Investment Review Agency (FIRA) which was dismantled by Mulroney and replaced with a Free Trade Agreement.
Key Issues:
How to guarantee a growing economy based on resource trade when neighboring countries produce higher value manufactured goods that Canadians must buy?
How to avoid the power of brokers in big centers to control the price of resources and produce less income for Canadians.
To what extent must a Canadian government protect the national economy and at the same time open Canada up for business?
8. WW II changed the global alliance system and polarized the world. Result: Cold War and arms race for global military domination.
9. Canada at the crossroads, vulnerable, chooses the middle way and becomes a middle power.
10. New organizations emerge with the purpose of establishing a mechanism to resolve conflict and work toward world peace. Canada takes a lead role as peace keeper.
11. Population growth in developing countries escalates while the income gap between rich and poor countries widens. Canada takes a leading role in developmental aid. (North South dialogue, CIDA)
Key Issues:
How to prevent global annihilation.
How to prevent future mass migrations.
How to use international institutions to create peace and prosperity.
Assignments
1. You will research the theme of your study group as a team and discuss key issues related to your theme. Do this based on any facts you can pull out from your text and other resources. Conduct a panel discussion of some of the issues before the class.
2. Individually, write a response how the issue was dealt with in Canada at the time, in other words, what led to the problem, what solutions were found, how successful were these solutions?
3. Choose three different images from pp. 264-406 and write an essay of 1000 to 1500 words, typed, double-spaced in which you discuss the significance of these images as representative of their time. Try to connect the images from different categories so that you can develop a theme.
