Chapter 1: Welcome to Canada!!

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Chapter 1 Welcome to Canada!!
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1.Define Immigration

• migration into a place (especially migration to a
  country of which you are not a native in order to
  settle there)

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2. Mr. Hieberts Story

• My family originates from many different
  countries including Germany, Holland, and
  Russia.
• For example, my great grandfather was a teacher
  in Moscow, but had to escape because the
  Communist Party were arresting people from the
  old regime and sending them to the Gulag (labour
  camp).

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3. Define Identity and Permanent Resident

• Identity how one sees oneself the values and
  perspectives to which an individual most strongly
  relates the qualities and attributes by which a
  thing or person is known.
• Permanent Resident a legal immigrant who is
  allowed to live and work in Canada but who is not
  a Canadian citizen

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4. What criteria are necessary to become a
Canadian citizen?

• Must be 18 or older
• Permanent resident
• Lived in Canada for 3 of the last 4 years

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5.Define First Nations, Inuit and Aboriginal
Peoples

• First Nations the indigenous (native, or
  original) nations, or peoples, of Canada, often
  referred to as Indians by European does not
  include the Inuit or Métis people.
• Inuit the aboriginal people who live in the
  arctic regions of North America, once called
  Eskimos.
• Aboriginal in Canada, First Nations, Inuit, and
  Métis People.

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6. Define Push-Pull Factor

• Push-Pull Factor influences that compel people
  to migrate from one place to another

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• Push Factors
• War
• Political problems
• Famine
• Overcrowding
• Lack of work
• persecution

• Pull Factors
• Peace
• Good government
• Food
• Land
• Jobs
• Rights and freedoms

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9. According to the Immigration and Refugee Act,
what criteria must people meet to gain entrance
to Canada?

• Can Apply...
• Be 18 or older
• Permanent resident
• Lived in Canada for 3 of 4 years
• Communicate in French or English
• Know Canada's history, geography, and political
  systems
• Rights and Responsibilities
• Cannot Apply If...

• Cannot Apply..
• Risk to Canada
• Deportation order
• Convicted of a serious crime
• In prison, on parole, or probation
• Investigated on war crimes
• Has citizenship revoked in the last five years

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10. Define Refugee and Asylum

• Refugee
• A person who flees a country because of
  well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of
  race, religion, nationality, political opinion,
  or membership in a particular political or social
  group.

• Asylum
• A safe place or refuge the special protected
  status given to a refugee

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11.Define Naturalization

• The formal process of becoming a citizen of a
  country.

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16. Define rights, responsibilities, values, and
pluralism

• Rights claims to which all people are entitled
  by moral or ethical principles or by legal
  guarantees.
• Responsibilities things for which one is
  accountable
• Values qualities that one considers important.
• Pluralism a shared belief in mutual acceptance
  and respect for diverse ethnic, racial,
  religious, and social groups within society.

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18. Define Denaturalization

• The act of taking away the rights of citizenship.

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Who is Ernst Zundel?

• Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündel (born April 24,
  1939) is a German neo-Nazi,Holocaust denier and
  pamphleteer who was jailed several times in
  Canada for publishing literature which "is likely
  to incite hatred against an identifiable group"
  and for being a threat to national security, in
  the United States for overstaying his visa, and
  in Germany for charges of "inciting racial
  hatred. He lived in Canada from 1958 to 2000.
• On February 5, 2003, Ernst Zündel was detained by
  U.S. local police and deported to Canada, where
  he was detained for two years on a Security
  Certificate for being a foreign national alleged
  to be a threat to national security pending a
  court decision on the validity of the
  certificate.
• Once the certificate was upheld and Zündel was
  determined to be a national security risk he was
  deported to Germany and tried in the state court
  of Mannheim on outstanding charges of incitement
  for Holocaust denial dating from the early 1990s.
  On February 15, 2007, he was convicted and
  sentenced to the maximum term of five years in
  prison.He was released on March 1, 2010.

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Why is Nelson Mandela recognized by Canada?

• Became the first foreigner to be made an honorary
  citizen of Canada.
• He spent 27 years in prison for taking action
  against South Africas racist system of
  Apartheid.
• When Mandela became president he promoted peace
  and reconciliation.

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22. When was the United Nations Created? Why?

• The united nations was established in 1945 after
  WW2.
• It was created to promote peace around the world.
  It started with only 51 countries but now has 191
  member countries.

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23. Rights are created to right wrongs Explain
this statement

• In the past laws were created that discriminated
  against aboriginals.
• Immigration came at their expense.
• Until recently the government overlooked the
  rights of these people regarding economic growth.

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24. Rights and Freedoms

• Rights life, liberty, and security, education,
  full participation of cultural life.
• Freedoms from torture or cruel, inhumane
  treatment or punishment, thought, conscience, and
  religion.
• Expression and opinion

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25. How has the udhr effected the indigenous
peoples

• Inspired them to take action.
• Declaration of the rights of indigenous peoples
  was adopted.

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26. Constitution act of 1982 influenced rights
in canada by...

• Legally guarantees democratic rights, language
  rights, and the rights of minorities.
• Establishes the principle of equality before the
  law

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28. Describe 3 periods of geologic development.

• 1. The Canadian Shield was formed about 2,000
  million years ago.
• 2. Sediments that accumulated in long, narrow
  basins, three regions (cordilleran mountai
  system, appalachian system, innuitian system
  across the high arctic, from Alaska to Greenland.
• 3. Depositing of sediments in shallow seas about
  500 million years ago.

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29. Glaciation

• Its a shield of ice formed 2, 000 million years
  ago made from rocks.
• 30. How has glaciations altered the Canadian
  landscape?
• Almost all of Canada was under ice during the
  last 1.5 million years. Only 1 is under ice
  today.

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33. Drainage Basin

• An area of land that is drained by river systems.
• 34. Characteristics that created the drainage
  basins?
• Location and size.

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36.Explain how each of the following effect
natural vegetation.

• Latitude because of the curvature of the earth,
  heat from the sun has to cover a larger area the
  farther the suns rays fall from the equator.
  This results in temperatures decreasing from
  south to north in the northern hemispheres.
• Distance from oceans
• Close to oceans, climates are temperate, with
  warm summers, cold winters, and less
  precipitation.

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• Air Movement Because air moves from west to east
  at Canadas latitude, weather patterns move in
  easterly direction.
• Landforms The western cordillera prevents warm,
  moist pacific air moving east across Canada.
  Interior Plains sometimes let moving air spread
  easily at other times, they act like a saucer,
  holding bodies of cold air in winter and hot air
  in summer.

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38. How does physical geography influence human
geography? Examples

• Canada is a northern country with little land
  suitable for agriculture.
• As a result, the area of Canada inhabited by
  significant numbers of people is small.

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39. Fig 1.9

• Ontario and Quebec

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40. Definitions

• Demography the scientific study of population
  with emphasis on size, births, deaths, etc.
• Natural Increase the numerical difference
  between the number of births and the number of
  deaths in a population in a given period.
• Rate of Natural Increase the overall rate at
  which populations increase.
• Birth Rate the number of live births per 1,000
  population in a given year.