economic problems 1870s-1890s & the national policy-1879

Economic Problems 1870s-1890s

& The National Policy-1879

Economic Problems in Canada

Problems in Canada:•People are not buying goods

from Canadian companies•People are not investing in

Canada

No Jobs!• Companies don’t have enough

money• They cannot pay many people to

work• People lose their jobs• People cannot pay taxes to Canada

The National Policy (NP)

• A plan to help Canada make money• John A. MacDonald started the plan

in 1876• 3 main ideas• Protect Canadian companies • Make a bigger railway for Canada• Bring more people to live in Canada immigrants

Protect Canadian Companies

• Make American companies pay more taxes• Help Canadian companies make

more products• More people will have jobs• More jobs = more taxes for Canada• Tax money to build railway!

Build a large railway for Canada

• Build a transcontinental railway• « Canadian Pacific Railway » finished in

1885• Companies used the railway to transport

raw materials, goods and people• Transport new immigrants to Western

Canada (settlers) to the Western plains

Railway station near present day Calgary

Last spike in the Transcontinental Railway

Railway Workers

Banff Springs Hotel Banff Alberta Built by the railway company

Chinese immigrants used as labour to build the railway they were not treated nicely

Chinese immigrant rail-workers camp

Chinese immigrant rail-workers camp

IMMIGRATION TO CANADA• Ask immigrants to move to Canada• Canada wanted immigrants from Europe

and the United States• 1.5 million immigrants moved to Canada

between 1871-1901• Western Canada• More immigrants meant more people to

pay taxes and buy Canadian products

Immigrants from Eastern Europe arriving in Western Canada

the National Policy (NP) in Quebec

AGRICULTURE in Quebec 1870s-1890s

• Problems• Not enough fertile land

for farmers• Farming techniques that

were not working well• Farmers had a difficult

time growing enough for their families

AGRICULTURE

• Canada asked farmers in Quebec to change• They asked farmers to switch the types of

farming they did• Wheat dairy farming, potatoes, tobacco…• The government of Canada opened up schools

for farming in Quebec to teach farmers