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Being Canadian means persevering in the face of hardship - Coggle Diagram
Being Canadian means persevering in the face of hardship
Canadians fight for their rights
Nellie McClung
Was a key person in the Women's Suffrage Movement (Giving women the right to vote)
Didn't start school until 10 years old, but still got a teaching certificate at age 16
Fought for women to be declared
"qualified persons" in the law
Sundar Singh
Spoke in front of the "empire club" (British empire) in protest of the Indian women not being allowed into Canada
Sikhs charted a boat to Canada with 376 immigrants in protest of "continuous journey" laws, but few were allowed into the country
Harold Cardinal
Fought against White Paper
Proposed paper by Pierre Trudeau that would reduce the rights of indigenous : people
wrote book called "unjust society" as a response to the "just society" by Trudeau
was the first indigenous person to serve as the indian minister
Helped participate in treaty negotiations with the Canadian Government
Canadians have been strongly discriminated against but persevered through it
Minoru
Persevered even through racism and discrimination by the Canadian Government
Came back to Canada after being sent to Japan (even though he was Canadian born) though serving the Canadian army in the Korean War
Japanese Internment Camps
Japanese Canadians were forced into "internment camps" because of irrational fears of Japanese Espionage (despite not a single occurance of this) and later forced to either move to inland Canada or go to Japan (even if they were born in Canada)
Sundar Singh
People from India were not treated fairly even though they were also part of the British empire at the time
Men from India were allowed into Canada but the women weren't