Continuity and Change

Hello and welcome back to another weekly blog post. I haven’t done one in a while because I haven’t had a PLP class in a while, but we just got back into doing projects, and the one we are doing right now is pretty interesting. It’s about Canada and continuity and change, and in this post I want to go over some interesting things I’ve learned so far.

One of the main things we’ve done in class is look at what has changed and what stayed the same in certain parts of Canadian history, and lately we have been focusing on immigration. Nowadays, Canada is known to be a welcoming country to immigrate to, but that wasn’t always the case. We did an activity looking at immigration then vs now, where we did research and put it in a Venn diagram.

I knew that immigration back then was discriminatory, but I didn’t know that it was extreme as it was. In 1947 only British, French, and Americans could immigrate freely to Canada. They also had mobile immigration teams they would send to other countries to choose who could immigrate. Another activity we did was making a before and after comparison for Canada and WW2. We had a limited amount of time, but I actually found something pretty interesting when I was doing research. Veterans got a lot of attention after the war, including veterans from minority groups. This brought them more into the public eye and eventually lead to rights movements for minority groups. The example I used was Chinese Canadians getting the right to vote in 1947.

Anyways, those are some things I learned this week, so that’s about it for this post. I’ll be posting weekly from now on, so make sure to stay tuned.

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