Canadian History

Race:

-Many African candians were only permitted to enlist in war enliess if a local regiment would accept them

--They were looking for primarily British immigrants

-Non-British or " foreigners" were shut out

Compulsory for immigrants to pass a literacy test

-the Canadian government contuned to make decisions for the aboriginals through the Indian affairs branch department of the interior

-aboriginals were not allowed to vote

-some aboriginals became a rootless people who were encouraged to forget their customes, language, and lifestyle.

-aboroiginal beliefs were often ridiculed and suppressed

-aboroiginals were taught to be ashamed of their past

-aboroiginal males were encouraged to take up farming even through many bands viewed it was womens work

-during this time the government budget for Indian affairs was small and was continuously being cut.

-this has a negative effect on the services that had been promised by the government in the treaties with the aboriginal peoples

suicide rates were the highest in the county and diseases like tuberculosis continued to kill many more people.

-most bands lived in terrible poverty with inferior housing, no running water or indoor toilets and poor diets

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Women:

-gained a new respect after big contribution to the war

-had gained the right to vote in federal and provincial elctions (except quebec) but only a few women were elected to office

-women were still viewed by many Canadians as being inferior to men

-occupied low paying, low-status jobs traditionally considered femal such as servants, secretaries, salesclerks, nurses

-recived less than males workers for doing the same work

-in 1929 only 25 percent of young women managed to attend high school

-few became doctors, lawyers, or business executives

-middle class women were expected to stop working when they got married; men were expected to support their wives

men started coming back so women were forced to go back to being domestic housewives...