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What Was Life Like for Polish and Jewish Immigrants? 1800-1900

History

Question: Between ______ to ________, a large wave of Polish immigrants came to Canda.
Answer: 1854 to 1901

Question: Where did the Polish immigrants settle in Canada
Answer: areas of Western Canada, mostly in Manitoba

Question: How did they support their families?
Answer: They became homesteaders and worked in the forestry and mining industries

Question: In the 1880s why did many Jewish people leave their homes in Europe?
Answer: They left because of prejudice and hatred of Jewish people

Question: By 1901 how many Jewish people lived in Montreal? 
Answer: 6975 Jewish people lived in Montreal

Family Life

Question: In a Polish household what did the Grandmothers, wives, and daughters look after in the household?
Answer: They looked after the household tasks, such as sewing, cleaning, and cooking

Question: In Jewish immigrant families who worked to support the family?
Answer: Both men and women

Question: Families that did not make much money expected their children over the age of ___________ to start working.
Answer: 13

Question: Most of the Jewish immigrants who arrived in the 1880s spoke what language?
Answer: Yiddish

Question: Jewish families that arrived in Montreal in joined clubs. What did these clubs help them do?
Answer: They helped the Jewish people keep their culture alive and connect them with people from their village

Religious and Social Life

Question: What religion were most of the Polish immigrants in Montreal?
Answer: Catholic

Question: When was Holy Ghost Parish founded?
Answer: it was founded in 1899

Question: What did Holy Ghost Parish help the Polish immigrants keep in touch with?
Answer: It helped them to keep in touch with their home country and culture.

Question: What is the first building usually established in a Jewish community?
Answer: Synagogue

Question: When do Jewish people usually celebrate at the synagogue?
Answer: Special holy days and on the Sabbath

Economic Life

Question: In Polish homestead families who works to keep the farm running?
Answer: Everyone

Question: Where did the men work if their family could not afford to buy farming equipment or livestock?
Answer: They would work in the mines or lumber camps to earn money

Question: When Jewish immigrants arrived in Montreal what did they do to earn money?
Answer: They would find work as tailors, storekeepers, and peddlers

Question: What is a peddler?
Answer: A peddler is someone who visits areas that were far from stores to sell goods.

Question: What were many immigrants who worked as tailors able to do after many years?
Answer: They were able to open their own businesses

Contributions

Question: What did Polish immigrants help settle?
Answer: They helped settle Canada's Prairies 

Question: What did Polish Canadians help develop
Answer: They helped develop our country's mining, forestry, and farming industries

Question: What city is thriving today because of the Jewish people?
Answer: Montreal

Question: In the 1800s who created the city's garment industry?
Answer: Jewish tailors

Question: Jewish people also set up many cultural organizations, as well as ________.___________.and ___________ in Montreal.
Answer: libraries, schools and newspapers