Grade 6 · Social Studies · Unit 3 of 12
Coming to Canada
Why people moved here
What your child practises
Push and pull factors, several waves of newcomers (Irish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Loyalist, Black freedom seekers, Vietnamese, Syrian and more), and how newcomer communities contributed.
Ontario Curriculum expectation: A1.3, A3.2–A3.4 · why different peoples migrated to Canada, and how newcomer communities shaped the country
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Which people came from India to British Columbia in the early 1900s to work in forestry and mills?
- Viking sailors
- Norman knights
- Many Sikh men and their families
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Many Sikh men and their families
Hint: Communities such as these still shape BC today.
Question 2
Starting in the 1890s, many Ukrainian families settled where?
- The Maritimes' fishing villages
- The Prairies, to farm
- The Arctic
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The Prairies, to farm
Hint: Canada offered land to farmers.
Question 3
Which is an example of a newcomer contribution?
- Opening a restaurant that shares food from home
- Moving a mountain
- Closing a library
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Opening a restaurant that shares food from home
Hint: Businesses, music, art and food all change communities.
Question 4
Pier 21 in Halifax was a gateway where…
- many newcomers first arrived in Canada
- ships were built
- airplanes landed
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many newcomers first arrived in Canada
Hint: From 1928 to 1971, about a million immigrants passed through.
Question 5
After 1867 which group of newcomers helped to settle the Prairies in large numbers?
- Pacific fishing crews
- Arctic hunters
- Eastern European farm families
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Eastern European farm families
Hint: Many Ukrainian, Polish and German families farmed there.
Question 6
Why did the government of Canada advertise free farmland in Europe around 1900?
- To fill cities with factory workers
- To get miners for the Arctic
- To attract farmers to settle the Prairies
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To attract farmers to settle the Prairies
Hint: Settling the Prairies was a government goal.