Exam 2: Canadas Families: Historical and Contemporary Variations

By the last quarter of the nineteenth century, inexpensive farm land was increasingly scarce, making it difficult for adult sons to purchase land and settle their families.

The twentieth century was proclaimed the "________". Childhood was seen as a special, vulnerable, dependent life stage associated with play, schooling, and character formation rather than work and wages.

Queen Victoria's "cult of domesticity" emphasized separate spheres for men and women. What did this mean?

The number of same-sex couples declined by 42 per cent between 2006 and 2016.

The 1950s were seen as a brief glorious moment when family values permeated society and family relations were strong and wholesome. However, men had distant relationships with their young children as long commutes, long workdays, and the emphasis on a mother-centered home kept them vaguely sidelined in the self-enclosed nuclear family unity.

During the modernization process, women's work, both inside and outside the home, was deemed unimportant to family subsistence.

In 2011, Indigenous children aged 14 and under were less likely than non-Indigenous children to live with married parents.

The first Canadian universal welfare measure developed in 1944 was called the ________

During the interwar years, ________ strove to restrict the immigration that many felt was leading to racial generation.

In colonial times, women were all of the following except: ________

The historic centrality of families derives from the functions of ________

The 1950s mark the "golden age" of the so-called ________ family.

The 1911 census showed that Asian and South Asian immigrant communities in Canada were exclusively female.

________ people were among the largest group of immigrants during the second wave of immigrants in 1951.

In early twentieth-century Canada, government policies encouraged African Americans from Oklahoma to settle in Alberta.

The sharp increase in birth rates, called the Baby Boom, began in ________

The "factory laws" of the 1890s took away jobs from women and children, and also ________

What was the purpose of eugenics and how did it affect the family?

According to the 2006 and 2011 Census, the number of same-sex couple families increased by approximately

The following statement regarding Indigenous children is false: ________