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| An immigration policy that puts no restrictions on who can immigrate. |
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Public land granted to settlers by the U.S. and Canadian Government in the later 19th century. Homesteads were supposed to be developed as farms. |
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| an old fashioned term used to refer to the country from which colonists emigrated. |
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| someone who practises imperialism, the polic of extending the control of a regions by one nation. |
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| To absorb easily into another culture. |
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| A slum area of a city, also an area of a city inhabited by a minority group. |
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| A crowed, usually cheap, building with many apartments, often owned by a company who rented to workers. |
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| Finacial assistance granted by goverenment in support of a business regarded as being in the public intrest. |
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| The remote and less developed area around a community. |
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| An organization of workers that negotiates matters such as wages and working condition with employers |
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| Thr right of women to vote. |
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| A person who advocates extending the right to vote, especially to women. |
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| The banning of the sale and consumption of alcholic beverages. |
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| The native concept that native people have ownership (or control) of the land because they were the first to occupy it. |
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| An investigation by a person. or persons, into a matter om behalf of the federal or provincial government-their decision is not binding on the government. |
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| Lands removed from Native reserves, or title to land that was revoked. |
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| Government by a territory's own people, used here for the right of Native peoples, but could also be applied to Canada itself, when it became independent of Britain |
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