A few northern states wanted to separate from the rest of the US but the US government didn’t. They wanted everything to stay as it was. Then the northern states started to fight against their separation which was sorta like a rebellion. After four years of fighting the war finally ended, and the northern states won. Even tho the war was only in the states Britain and even France felt it. Although they were both neutral to it. At the time textiles industry was also growing in Britain but they didn’t have any cotton for it. The only place that had them were the southern states. When Britain tried to get a hold of the cotton they were blocked by the union ships. So a few Britain investors built blockade runners. They were fast ships made for smuggling cotton into Britain. in November 1861, an American warship caught on of these runners and on board the runner called Trent that got caught there were 2 British agents. They were imprisoned. Britain got pissed and threatened to attack if they didn’t let the agents go. this introduced tension between the two countries.

Manifest destiny was the idea of the United states expanding.

The Fenian raids were small attacks that came from Irishmen that called themselves fenians. They thought that if they could capture a few colonies they could hold a ransom. They wanted Ireland to have a better life then what they already had. After all the raids more and more people wanted the BNA colonies to unite and have a real defence.

The BNA colonies witnessed attacks on them and saw that they had no defence, no help what’s so ever. And after the attacks more people had the desire to unite. For them to unite was to be safe. And really who doesn’t want to be safe…?

Introduction

The average life of an Irishman and his family.

Jack McGregor has a wife Abigail McGregor and 2 kids. His two kids are boys. One son is Connor a healthy 15 years and his other son Brian. He is 22 years old and also healthy. He was living in Galway, Ireland with his family. His wife Abigail most of the part stayed home and took care of the kids and prepared food and clothes. They work on their 6 acre farm with 4 acres of potatoes crops and then 2 acres of cash crop which was wheat. They have been living on their farm for about 7 years and have been lucky enough to pay off the rent that long, but the last few months they have been falling behind on his land rent. After a few days a man came to their house telling them that they have till sundown to get out. Now the absentee landlord has kicked them out of their house. After leaving their home they are now challenged with finding a new home in the new land.

Rising action

1. Connor and his family decided to leave Ireland to Canada after getting kicked off the land by the absentee land lords. He and his family traveled to Canada via coffin ship. When they were boarding it was sort of a mixture of higher class and lower class. All of the higher class people were wearing beaver hats which they got from the fur trade. The ship was called the “Coffin Ship” because mostly everyone who was on that ship got sea sick, got dehydration, Cholera, Dysentery and died. Most say it was a horrifying trip to take. So as they were on the coffin ship, they met two people and one got sick and other got stabbed by their master. But again since they were one the coffin ship they started to feel sick and dehydrated. But they arrived to Canada safely.

1. Next since they were a little short on money they wanted to get jobs in the fur trade. So they did end up getting jobs in the fur trade. So about two or three years after in the fur trade they finally made enough money, they paid off their debt to the landlords. Then after built a house and they started to live a lot better than they once were. Before they came to Canada. But even though they thought everything was a lot better they was still such in Catholic’s versus Protestants where anyone who came over from Ireland they would treat them differently than Canadian people. But if going to be accepted they would have to go to Quebec not Ontario. Because they would have been treated like slaves there.

Climax

When they came to Canada living in Ontario they started to realize that it wasn’t what they hope it to be and it was very racist because anyone who came over from Ireland to Canada would be treated differently. But Quebec that’s where they needed to go because there everyone was treated the same no matter what or where they come from, so some how they had to get from Ontario to Quebec. So then they left their land and house only took what they could carry. So now there ultimate goal was to somehow get to Quebec get some land and start over. The main reason why they were leaving Ontario in the first place was because the slavery was really bad there and that they weren’t getting treated as fair as the others. So they wanted forget everything they did in Ontario and go to Quebec that was there mission now.

Falling Action:

The McGregor family underwent a lot of scrutiny from the general public for their Irish Heritage. The family’s only goal was to save up enough money to pay off the Canadian landlords and start a new life in Quebec where they will be properly accepted. Throughout Jacks travels he ends up meeting a fellow fur trader named Edward and his Native American wife, who is a crucial guide within the hard to traverse wilderness of Canada, and through the experienced fur trader (Edward) Jack finds out about the most reliable colonies within which to do trading in to receive the most profit in return. Edwards’s reliable trading secrets, which he offers to share with Jack as a token of good friendship and to show him that not all North Americans believe In Darwin’s “Survival of the Fittest” theory, it helps Jack pay of the Landlords and have enough money to start a new life in Quebec.

Conclusion:                     

It’s been 9 years since the McGregor family left Ontario to start a new life in Quebec. Both Connor and Brian are much older now, and both have a hand in the fur trade, as Connor works as a courier between several different Native American colonies and Brian married a Native American women named Aiyana. The pair of them help disperse goods and make high value trades. Jack finally found peace with the fact that he brought his children to a better world where they can have a new life and prosper and Jack ends up contracting polio and passing away, leaving his wife in the care of his sons but he dies peacefully knowing that he finally made it home.

1. http://www.inmotionaame.org/migrations/topic.cfm;jsessionid=f8302300711349862998751?migration=2&topic=9&tab=image&bhcp=1. My person is John Martin and you can find him on page 335 under the chapter Windsor

2.  “History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.” – Claudio Magris, Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea.

1. a.

This picture represents farming. Farming was very important because most of the people who moved here to Canada were expecting different circumstances. Most of the economical system was based of barter. So many people traded instead of buying.

b.

What we see here is social class. Social Class was clearly visible to everyone. Social class separated the wealthy from the poor. You saw that in the way they talked, acted, where they lived and where they worked.

c.

The second picture there is a church and small buildings on the left. The first picture is the same town with a lot more development AND the church is also still there. So clearly its important. If it wasn’t they wouldn’t have had it up in the first picture.

d.

This is the Land Map. The shaded in area are part clergy reserves and the other part is the governments land. All the other non shaded parts of the map belong to the immigrants that came to Canada. Also most of the land that the clergy and government owned was the best land available, so immigrants also didn’t have the best farming land either.

e.

Loyalty in Britain. if you were to ask a anyone in Canada and they would say that they’re loyal to Britain. In the picture above you can see a British flag in the middle of the camp.

Zack, Max

Cordillera: I think people should visit Barkerville. For the reason of history and gold. History goes back till the forty-niners a baseball team called after the same year that the Gold Rush started.

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Interior Plains: The Calgary Stampede Rodeo is a place where you go get a thrill of watching other people getting pounded on by huge angry bulls. Its a place you go to have fun and enjoy the show.

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Canadian Shield: There isn’t much to do here. But if you like the outdoors and hiking and camping this is the place to do it.

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St. Lawrence Lowlands: The Most visited site is the Fredric Remington Museum. it has many interesting facts and you get to learn lots about history.

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Appalachians: The Loop Trail is very famous because is displays much history about the Appalachians. I personally like hiking and I would recommend this is to you also.

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Arctic: The North Pole. I would definitely go o see the north pole if I was just passing by the Arctic.

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Topography and Vegetation

The Topography of the Appalachian region is an extension of the Appalachian Mountains, it began in the southeastern United States and end in the maritime provinces of Canada. The landscape looks like rolling hills, valleys, small mountains, highlands, and coastal fjords, what is left of an older mountain range worn down by glaciers and by millions of years of erosion. Igneous rock is present as a result of ancient volcanic activity, as is metamorphic rock, which is formed by hear and pressure. You will also find, Coniferous Forest, Open Woodland, Tundra, and Mixed Forest in the Appalachian region.

The Canadian Shields Regions topography, stretches from the arctic islands south to the United States boarder, and east across Labrador. The shield had once been a volcanic mountain range, over hundreds of years of erosion and weathering, not to forget about the glaciers, that all had worn down the landscape to bare rocks, wet and flat lands, also lakes. After millions of years of erosion and weathering, especially the action of the glaciers, it has worn down the land to a landscape of flat, bare rocks, lakes, and wetlands. You will also find, Open Woodland, Coniferous Forest, Tundra, Subarctic, and Mixed Forest in the Canadian Shield region.

The Arctic Regions topography includes mountains, plains, and lowlands. The pressure at the northeastern part of the Canadian Shield pushed up the sedimentary rock to form, Fold Mountains. The lowlands are composed of sedimentary rock, they have deposits of oil and natural gas. The possibility of increase shipping through the arctic waters has raised concerns among the Inuit, who rely on the wildlife of the regions for their food and clothing, the Canadian government and environmentalist have the same fear. You will also find, Tundra and Subarctic in the Arctic region.

The St. Lawrence Lowlands this region was mostly formed by retreating sheets of ice that mostly covered Canada in ice age. The ice sheets pushed soil from the shield to where the lowlands are today. As the ice melted giant lakes formed, larger lakes remanded as bluffs. Between the old shore lines and the present lakes, fertile areas of well-drained sandy soils were left behind. These areas now make up the rich agricultural land around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. You will also find, Coniferous Forest, Mixed Forest in the St. Lawrence Lowlands region.

The Interior Plains region stretches from the Canadian shield to the Cordillera Mountains, the interior plains were formed as soils carried by rivers from the Canadian shield were deposited at its edge. These deposits formed horizontal layers of sedimentary layers to form large deposits of fossil fuels, natural gas, oil and evaporites such as potash are some of those. The wide, grassland and flat spaces were ideal for grazing animals such as bison, later it was turned into vast farms and cattle ranches. The “Dirty Thirties,” as the 1930s became known, saw the ruin of crops due to drought, The wend blew the soil away, creating large dust storms, because the large areas were so dry. You will also find, Parkland, Grassland, Coast and Interior Forest, Coniferous Forest, Open Woodland, Tundra in the Interior Plains region.

The Cordillera region is made up of parallel mountain ranges separated by a series of plateaus, trenches, and valleys in British Columbia and the Yukon. The diverse landscape, which also includes dormant volcanoes, glaciers, and ice fields, are all a part of the vast chain of mountains that stretches from Alaska to chile. The youngest landforms in Canada were formed when play collision caused the earths crust to buckle, pushing and folding volcanic rock into mountains. This plate movement is called plate tectonics, also caused the formation of trenches, valleys, plateaus.Erosion from rivers and glaciers created the rugged, mountainous landscape seen today. You will also find, Coast and Interior Forest, Grassland, Parkland, Tundra, Coniferous Forest, Open Woodland, Subarctic in the Cordillera region.

Human-Environmental Interaction

Population/Topography:
The topography affects where people choose to live because it take a lot more resouces and cost to get up into the mountains or hills let alone get electricity and running water there too.
More people tend to live on flatter land.
Population/Climate:
The majority of people like to live on flatter land.
The climate around the flatter lands are more moderate and cooler.

Citations:

“Google.” Google. Web. 28 Sept. 2015. <https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1368&bih=599&q=topographic map of canada&oq=topographic map of canada&gs_l=img.3…0.0.1.744.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0….0…1ac..64.img..2.9.2262.iz7-kELj8fQ>.

“Gross Domestic Product at Basic Prices, by Industry (monthly).” Government of Canada, Statistics Canada. Web. 28 Sept. 2015. <http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/gdps04a-eng.htm>.

1. P.E.I                                                                       People by the Thousands                                 Max, Zach

Goods producing sector – 18.0

Agriculture – 3.7

Forestry, fishing, mining, quarrying, oil and gas – 2.5

Utilities 0.3

Construction – 5.8

Manufacturing – 5.6

Service producing sector – 56.1

Trade – 11.0

Transportation and warehousing – 2.9

Finance, insurance, real estate and leasing – 2.3

Professional scientific technical services – 2.9

Businesses, building and other support services – 2.3

Educational services – 5.6

Health care and social assistance – 10.5

Information, culture and recreation – 2.6

Accommodation and food services – 5.5

Other services – 3.3

Public administration – 7.0

Goods and producing sector is the highest employer in P.E.I.

2. P.E.I                                                                     Annual Percentage Share

service producing industries – 51.71

Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting – 1.66

mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction – 29.50

manufacturing – 4.01

retail trade – 5.18

professional, scientific and technical services – 2.44

educational services – 4.76

accommodation and food services – 7.18

3. P.E.I Agriculture – Company name is Doucette Farms, 82 Point Red Road, Johnston’s River Prince Edward Island, Canada. C1B 3C7. About half of the Doucette’s farm is woodland, providing habitat’s for local wildlife as well as supplying much of the timber that Michael used to build his family’s home. The landscape around the farm is a patchwork of agriculture fields interspersed with woodlands that help to reduce the erosion and shields the crops from the wind.   Citations: 2. 3. “Doucette Organics – Certified Organic Vegetables and Fruit – PEI, Canada – Home.” Doucette Organics – Certified Organic Vegetables and Fruit – PEI, Canada – Home. Web. 18 Sept. 2015. <http://www.doucetteorganics.ca/index.asp>. 

“Employment by Major Industry Group, Seasonally Adjusted, by Province (monthly) (Prince Edward Island).” Government of Canada, Statistics Canada. Web. 18 Sept. 2015. <http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/labr67c-eng.htm>.

“ERROR.” Government of Canada, Statistics Canada. Web. 21 Sept. 2015. <http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a26?lang=eng&retr/lang=eng&id=3790028&&pattern=&stByVal=1&p1=1&p2=31&tab/mode=dataTable&csid>.

Max

If we had global warming I think it WOULD be a problem because if it got warmer, people that don’t like rain will start to move to places that previously had rain but now don’t… That could be bad if more and more people start moving to Vancouver and if the population becomes more and more dense that could be bad, but if more and more people start spreading out in B.C. then more people could fit into an even bigger area.