Exam 2: Canadas Families: Historical and Contemporary Variations

Discuss colonial family life in North America.

Elaborate on the following statement: The Great Depression and "Dirty Thirties" were a time of "gender crisis, more particularly a crisis of male unemployment, and consequently of the male-breadwinner family idea."

What was important about the Postwar Reconstruction era and how were families affected?

In 1900, only 11 divorces were granted due to the tremendous religious disapproval of marriage dissolution.

Describe the hardships many families experienced during the years of the Great Depression.

Men's focus in the early 1900s was to "clean up" the material and moral dilemmas that existed as a result of the modernizing forces.

Immigration to Canada in the Laurier years (1896-1911) seemed to be open to all origins of race but was actually very selective and discriminatory.

What is meant by the "stagflation" of the 1970s?

In 1900, the average age for men to marry was ________ years old and ________ years old for women.

After the Second World War, the federal government's commitment to supporting the postwar economy led to the establishment of the ________

The ________ family, characterizing traditional agrarian communities, was imported intact to the New World.

As a result of the land treaties of the 1870s, many Aboriginal children were removed from their families and communities in order to break the cultural transmission of their languages and customs.