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Nellie McClung And The Feminist Movements Of Canada

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Nellie McClung And The Feminist Movements Of Canada

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By Emma Russelo
Nellie Mcclung, known for Women’s rights activist earned women the right to vote.

Nellie McClung born October 1873 was a Canadian Suffragette, she had many jobs over the course of her career such as writer, teacher, speaker, politician and activist. She was part of the social reform movements in Western Canada in the early 1900s. Nellie realized the need for economic independence of women. She joined the temperance movement in order to try and stop the problems associated with alcohol abuse, this is what led Nellie into a interest with the women’s suffrage movement.

Nellie is most known for getting women the right to vote. In 1914 she and other members mocked the parliament stating the dangers of allowing men the right to vote, this play was effective and even entertaining. In 1916 Manitoba was the first province to allow women to vote, thanks to Nellie and the women who took a stand with her. The province of saskatchewan followed quickly. After Nellie’s victory, later on in life she continued to fight for human rights. She also campaigned rights of aboriginal and asian women. She wanted to government to accept European immigrants during world war 2.

Nellie was driving force in Canadian politics her whole life, and had great success and is now known across the world for standing up and making a change.

“Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.”
― Nellie McClung

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Sir Wilfred Laurier And Canadian Immigration In 1900s

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Sir Wilfred Laurier And Canadian Immigration In 1900s

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“Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel.”
A man of the age of time has now passed in the present year of 1919. This man drew great dreams and had succeeded in many of those performances. With the man who had skilled Canada's economy and had brought huge populace all over Canada. The man who was the most dominant figure in this era, but Sir Laurier’s achivements weren't all easy to write and summarize, for he set hundred of goals as he served in the longest tenure in our Canadian history. Sir Laurier had brought many of his citizens together from him being able to speak the two national languages in Canada, english as well as french. Sir Laurier had stayed in our liberal party for many years until the present day of defeat in 1911 by Sir Robert Borden. Of course Laurier’s populance was still increasing to this day in 1919 , but not all english and french were coming in, many multicultural people were coming in and soon started to populate our country with their national languages and cultures. Laurier was seeing many of these different cultures come into Canada so he had then decided to immigrate to Western Canada through the Canadian Pacific Railway. As Laurier kept immigrating till this year in 1919 he had strayed to try to keep Canada an independent country and as independent they could get from Britain.  Laurier had great skill with bringing Canadians and non - Canadians together as one to formulate and populate our country as a multicultural community. While striving and pressing his dreams to make a better county he had got many of his citizens attention and admiration towards him.
However as Laurier got older many of his citizens made his work space a struggle by people saying false information like he was a “traitor” to the english and a “sell out” to french people.  He was still the greatest prime minsiter we’ve had and all of us as his people will continue to ache about his passing. Sir Laurier died in our nation St. Lynn hospital at the age of seventy-seven from a stroke.
“Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.”

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By Christian Levesque
Residential schools went on for over 100 years trying to shut down the indidions community of Canada indidions children were forced to learn the english language and were forbidden to speak any other language and had a severe punishment if caught speaking a different language. One of the punishments was  getting whipped with the strap on the hand which is like a belt. Indidions children were beaten and treated like they were worthless all because they were indidions. Some pros that were created with residential schools were well...nothing the residential school system beat kids, created suicide after it.It also caused depression for students, kids died, they were seperated from family, The only thing this achieved was wiping out a whole culture and ruining so many young people’s lives for generations and generations. The side effects that residential schools can cause is PTSD, depression, abuse towards the kids of the old students of residential schools because they never had a childhood never had a proper raising and that’s what they were taught is to beat their children when they misbehaved. The government of canada is thinking of commemorating a holiday to the victims of residential schools as an apology to the indidions people for destroying their culture.

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By Aliccia Gaitan
In the 1900’s, technologies were used very differently and has changed compared to now. Sickles and rakes were replaced with horse-drawn mowers and binders. Steam-powered tractors were used to break up the soil and plough the land. But not many farmers could afford the tractors, so they rented them and had to share the tractors and the different machines with each other.                                                                                                         Electricity in the 1900’s was really different. Rivers and waterfalls produced the electricity. Instead of having horses pull city street cars, they were replaced with electric motors. Electricity had been used in factories and provided exports to the US. Electric motors replaced the horses used to pull city street cars.                                                                                        There was only 1 kind of car that had been made throughout Canada and only had a couple hundred produced of that kind. It was handmade and the speed limit had only been 60km. Automobiles had created the demand for more highways, streets and freeways.                                                                 The first ever wireless message was sent from England to Newfoundland. After came along radios, television and satellite. Before wireless communication, letters had to be sent.

Trains in the 1900’s carried settlers to the canadian West and East and also carried wheat crops from the prairies to the parts of Vancouver, Montreal and Quebec City. Railways played a big role of opening up new markets and creating a demand for resources and technology.