What are 12 important events for Canada between election of Laurier and start of ww1?
Population of the West While the National Policy, CPR and Dominion Lands Act had been in place for several decades, the population of Canada’s prairie regions only got underway around 1896. Why it began then is a matter of debate among historians. John Dales argued that it was a combination of rising wheat prices, cheaper ocean transport costs, technological change, new varieties of wheat, and the scarcity of land in the United States. Norry does not view any of these developments as being important, and instead argues that new methods of dry farming lead to the breakthrough. Recently ,Ward had argued that technological change was the most important factor, with a number of different inventions becoming cheap and reliable enough to be widely used around this period. The period of western settlement was one of the most prosperous in Canadian history. From 1896 to 1911, Canada had the world’s fastest growing economy. Immigration from Eastern Europe and the eastern parts of the former Aus
