Setting aside for the moment the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canada, the non-Native demographic has been transformed. But they did recalibrate the country from a dualistic to a pluralistic society. Earlier in this chapter it was pointed out that the immigration waves of the 20th century did not reframe Canada in the same way as the Edwardian waves. The effects of these patterns have been significant. In Newfoundland and Labrador, for example, the foreign-born constitute fewer than 2% and half that share are people of colour. The share of Atlantic Canada’s population that is comprised of non-northern European stock is tiny.

It is not true, however, of the rest of Canada. In 2006, nearly half of Toronto’s population described themselves as belonging to a “visible minority” about the same proportion now make the same claim in Vancouver’s population. The population patterns that emerged thereafter mostly reinforced existing urban settlement, adding ethnic complexities in close contact within one another. And while the transition from a mostly rural to a mostly urban society continued on course, much of that work had been accomplished by 1921. 1890.Īcross the century that began with the Great War in August 1914, the complexion of Canada changed significantly. Men and women alike worked the fields, ca. Immigration and the Immigrant Experienceĥ.13 Summary Figure 5.25 Immigrants in the years between the 1890s and the 1920s often lacked the capital to buy the kind of machinery that would make their work lives easier and some, indeed, rejected the new technologies.

(source: Nielsen Book Data) Publisher's summaryĮxamining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history and to sow the seeds of underdevelopment in what later became known as the third world.Chapter 5. The author, Mike Davis, argues that the seeds of underdevelopment in what later became known as 'The Third World' were sown in this era of high imperialism, as the price for Capitalist modernization was paid in the currency of millions of peasants' lives. The effects of drought were magnified in each case because of singularly destructive policies promulgated by different ruling elites. All of these countries were effected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that decimated the populations. 'Late Victorian Holocausts' focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China and North-Eastern Brazil. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p.

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