Three goals are manageable for one class session. When they are visible, they keep us all on track. At the end of the class, referring to the goals gives everyone a sense of progress and closure for the day, | READING SECTION 155 - Western settlement and the opening of the northern resource frontier stimulated industrial expansion particularly in central Canada. As ttie National Policy had intended a growing agricultural population in the West increased the demand for eastern manufactured goods thereby giving rise to agricultural implements works iron and steel foundries machine shops railway yards textile mills boo and shoe factories and numerous smaller manufacturing enterprises that supplied consumer goods. By keeping out lower-priced foreign manufactured goods the high tariff policies of the federal government received much credit for protecting existing industries and encouraging the creation of new enterprises. To climb the tariff wall large American industrial firms opened branches in Canada and the governments of Ontario and Quebec aggressively urged them on by offering bonuses subsidies and guarantees o locate new plants within their borders. Canadian industrial enterprises became increasingly attractive to foreign investors especially from the United States and Great Britain Much of the over 600 million of American capital that flowed into Canada from 1900 to 1913 was earmarked for mining and the pulp and paper industry while British investors contributed near billion mostly In railway building business development and the construction of urban infrastructure. As a result the gross value of Canadian manufactured products quadrupled from 1891 to 1916. 1. Why does the author mention the railroads in paragraph 1 CD Because miners were traveling to camps in the Wes CD Because mineral deposits were discovered when the railroads were built CD Because the western frontier was being settled by families ou Because traders used the railroads to transport their goods Paragraph 1 is marked with an arrow - . 2. In paragraph 1 the author identifies Sudbury as an important stop on the new railroad line O a Farge market for the metals produced in Ontario O a major .
