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Charles Tupper led Nova Scotia to Confederation. He was a federal cabinet minister and diplomat and briefly Prime Minister of Canada during his long political career â his ten-week tenure is the shortest in Canadian history (Farr, Tattrie and Yarhi, 2008). He was the Confederation's last surviving leader. Charles Tupper, as governor, supported both the North American Maritime Alliance and the British, which he did not feel were conflicting goals. He served as a delegate in Charlottetown, Quebec, and London, but was unable to gain support in the Nova Scotia Assembly for the Québec resolutions. He argued that entering Canada would improve Nova Scotia's commercial sector and give Canada and the British Empire greater power to the colony. Tupper extended the rail network and improved education with the Free School Act, which established state-subject public schools, funded by a booming provincial economy. The outbreak of the American civilian war convinced him that it was important for Nova Scotland's stable future to join a larger Canadian union (Tattrie and McIntosh, 2014). The agreement reached by the Confederation in 1867 was intended to address several problems which, since British entry, have been affecting the British Northern American colonies. Although the agreement still does not remove the tension between the two major linguistic communities, the current two-level structure has been modified and eased (Tattrie and McIntosh, 2014). The fear of American domination, both economic and political, would never vanish after the Confederation, although the new deal offered a chance to overcome this problem domestically. His success in building the Intercolonial Railway may have helped bring positive things to Cumberland County and he believed New Scotians and later the people of Canada would play off racial and cultural differences and focus on exploiting their tremendous wealth. In Nova Scotia, he claimed the many mines and their miles of shoreline could only bring "a big industry to this side of the Atlantic." (Farr, Tattrie and Yarhi, 2008) One of the greatest environmental catastrophes in Canadian history is, in people's minds, the Depression of the 1930s. The Dust Bowl Prairie. Canada and Newfoundland economies have suffered a dramatic effect as the international commodity market collapsed. Since late 1929 nobody can be sure how long it is before growth comes back; nobody would have guessed that the economy is being brought back to life by a decade of economic suffering. A world-wide social and economic shock was the Great Depression in the early 1930s. Few countries have been as severely affected as Canada. There was unemployment, starvation, and sometimes homelessness left to millions of Canadians. It caused social welfare to be born and nationalist political movements to rise (Struthers and Foot, 2013). The government was also driven to play a more active role in the economy. The symptoms of depression in Canada are compounded by many main factors. The various regions of the country have been affected to various degrees. There was a great inadequacy of the social welfare system in the region. And government efforts to address issues have been misguided through policy. The exports represented a third of Canada's Gross National Income. The collapse of international trade, therefore, hit the country hard. Almost exclusively from exports of primary products were the four western provinces. Therefore, they were the hardest hit. Prime Minister Mackenzie King's government was under pressure to achieve social reform, so power needed to be centralized to support such new programs (Struthers and Foot, 2013). As the depression intensified, the laxity of the Confederation was shown. The provinces were mostly in charge of the poor, but few were able to collect money. The federal government had wide fiscal powers, but little social responsibility. They knew all levels of government when they entered World War II, and when they began introducing centralized social programs, there was little resistance from the federal government (Struthers and Foot, 2013). References Farr, D., Tattrie, J., and Yarhi, E., 2008. Sir Charles Tupper. In: The Canadian Encyclopedia. Government of Canada. Struthers, J., and Foot, R., 2013. The Great Depression in Canada. In: The Canadian Encyclopedia. Government of Canada. Tattrie, J., and McIntosh, A., 2014. Nova Scotia and Confederation. In: The Canadian Encyclopedia. Government of Canada. Assignment Directions (10%) Purpose: the purpose of this First Assignment is to offer you an opportunity to become familiar with the course content (the 6 units and various topics in each unit) and the specifics of Unit 1 (Roads to Confederation). You also get an opportunity to become familiar with expectations on how to format an assignment using APA formatting standards. You will have an opportunity to conduct research as directed. You will also have an opportunity to use the APA format for creating in text citations and references page. Instructions: · Access our course content by clicking on Content and then open Unit 1. Carefully read all materials in Unit 1. · Next, explore the content in our other 5 units, listed on the left in the table of contents. You do not need to read everything exhaustively at this point. The idea is to get an overview of the content and themes of our course. · You will be asked to answer two questions (see below). Answer each question in your assignment, numbering your answer for each question at a minimum to show where each answer is. Use headings and sub-headings if you wish to further show where sub-sections of answers are. Use APA formatting standards for essays for font style, size, spacing, margins, headings, sub-headings etc. · You will NOT need introductory or concluding paragraphs. · You will be marked on thoroughly answering all questions and subsections of questions showing that you explored our course content and conducted research. Do not quote directly from our course content or from your research. Instead, answer the questions in your own words, showing you read and understood the course content and the research you conducted and that you have carefully reflected on the materials. But remember that even when you are using your own words, you still need APA in text citations. · When you mention content from our course or from your research you WILL need APA in text citations. At the end of your assignment, on its own separate page, you will need a References Page where you will list once each the sources you used, dividing this list into two sections: One section you should label Course Resources and the other section you should label Outside Resources. Course Resources include any content in any of our Units or any sources directly linked in any of our Units. Outside Resources includes anything else you used, including any sources you were directed to use in the assignment description. See resources under Content- “APA Resources” in the table of contents for how to format your in-text citations and your references page entries. · Your answers must be original and unique to you. Once you put your assignment in the drop box, it will go through Turnitin to compare your work against material submitted by other students and material available online. · Using carefully edited proper sentences and paragraphs, answer the questions below. Number each question and write approximately two paragraphs for each question. · See the Rubric for the First Assignment for further details on how to be successful in this assignment. First Assignment Questions: 1. Open Unit 1 (Roads to Confederation) and carefully read all the content there (including material on Confederation itself and important background material provided). Select one of the Fathers of Confederation listed (Macdonald, Cartier, Brown, Dorion, McGee, Tilley, Gray, Howe, or Tupper) and research him and his views on Confederation using one or more articles in the online Canadian Encyclopedia. You can access it here: https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en. On that site, use the “search” button on the top right to research your chosen Father of Confederation. Select articles in your research here rather than “timelines” or “collections” or any other type of source. According to your chosen Father of Confederation, what were the advantages and/or disadvantages of Confederation? Explain, using both your encyclopedia research and content from Unit 1. Set your explanation into the context of the background material you read in Unit 1 to show your understanding of why your chosen Father of Confederation would feel that way. Do NOT conduct research using any other sources. You WILL need APA in text citations to your encyclopedia article(s) and to Unit 1 course content in this answer. 2. Next, conduct an overall exploration of the other 5 units in our course. Briefly identify one topic, issue or theme that caught your attention. Explain briefly why it caught your attention and what you now know about this so far after your exploration in our course content. Next, conduct research on this topic, issue or theme by reading one or more articles in the online Canadian Encyclopedia. You can access it here: https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en. On that site, use the “search” button on the top right to research the topic you want to know more about. Select only articles to read (not a “timeline” or any other link) and briefly explain the new insights you have gained about this topic and why you feel it is important, particularly to understand how Canada was created at Confederation and has developed as a country from what you know from Unit 1. Do NOT conduct research using any other sources. You WILL need APA in text citations to course material and your chosen encyclopedia article(s) in this answer. Topic, issue, or theme for Question #2 Unit 3: The Canadian Economy: Depression, War, and Recovery The Great Depression The Great Depression of the 1930s still ranks for Canadians as the most disastrous decade of this century. To many of those who lived through it, the Second World War came as a relief. In recent years the use in the media of the phrase “the worst unemployment since the Great Depression” testifies to its continued force as a symbol of economic catastrophe. 1929 Market Collapse The Canadian economy was dependent on the export of raw materials such as wheat, lumber, and minerals, all of which saw foreign markets plummet after 1929. Manufacturing companies in Canada were forced to cut back on production and lay off workers because of the dramatic slump in demand for the goods they made. Unemployment skyrocketed. Young, single men, frequently in search of their first jobs after leaving school, were particularly affected. Many of them traveled across the country, hitching rides on railway freight cars, in what was all too often a vain search for work. The "Bennett Buggy" The Depression is remembered for the bread lines