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A voice for the voiceless
QUESTION 1: What Regina-born actor known for his deadpan delivery had a brother who served as Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister from 1984 to 1986? QUESTION 2: Which Canadian city used to be called Berlin before its permanent—and somewhat controversial—renaming during the First World War? QUESTION 3: Legend says he missed a train in Ireland and decided, “enough is enough.” What revolutionary concept did Canadian engineer and inventor Sir Sandford Fleming introduce in 1878? QUESTION 4: His name is on the Stanley Cup nine times, and the number he wore throughout his long career has been retired to the rafters above the Bell Centre ice. Which former Montreal Canadiens defenceman leads the NHL’s plus-minus statistics with an impressive career rating of +730?
nadian House of Commons in 1921. She was later one of the first two women elected to the Ontario Legislature.
As a young child living in rural Ontario in the 1890s, Agnes Macphail was a bit of an outlier. She despised learning how to cook and sew, preferring by far to spend time in the fam- ily barn with her father. A bright, ambitious girl, Agnes never outgrew her refusal to comply with the status quo of the era: instead, she dedicated her entire life to challenging it.
In both federal and provincial politics, Macphail never lost sight of society’s most vulnerable. During her time as a Member of Parliament, she played an instrumental role in reforming the Canadian penal system after being shocked by the living conditions at the Kingston Peni- tentiary. A champion of workers’ rights and an unapolo- getic feminist, her progressive ideals and strong will led to the adoption of Ontario’s first equal pay legislation in 1951. Other milestones in her iconoclastic career in- clude founding the Elizabeth Fry Society of Canada—an advocacy group that helps female convicts navigate the justice system—and becoming the first woman in the Ca- nadian delegation to the League of Nations. Agnes Macphail died in February 1954 at age 63, just before she was to be offered an appointment to the Canadian Senate. Decidedly ahead of her time, her ideal of an equal, prosperous society for all Canadians—not just the rich and well-connected—lives on as a defining principle of modern-day Canada.
AGNES MACPHAIL (1890 – 1954) Teacher, journalist, politician and idealist
The seeds of Agnes Macphail’s trailblazing political career were sown when she joined the United Farmers of Ontario (UFO) to fight for the rights of struggling farmers like her parents. As a member of the Progressive Party, affiliated to the UFO at the time, she became the first woman elected to the Ca-
Photograph: First woman member of the Canadian House of Commons. (Agnes Macphail) Source: Library and Archives Canada/Muriel Kerr collection/c021557
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Where are we from? THE 52 LARGEST GROUPS IN CANADA’S MULTICULTURAL MOSAIC
HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY
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infO Canada THE STORIES BEHIND OUR SYMBOLS
THE MEXICAN COMMUNITY
According to the 2011 National Household Survey, just over 96,000 Canadians—that’s 0,3% of the total population—self-identify as having some degree of Mexican heritage. What’s more, some 43,965 Mexicans became permanent residents of Canada between 1980 and 2012. The numbers don’t lie: Mexico holds a proud spot amidst Canada’s vibrant cultural patchwork.
ALBERTA
FLOWER: WILD ROSE
The fragrant wild rose (Rosa acicularis) has been Alberta’s emblematic flower since 1930, when the province’s schoolchildren voted it in as their provincial floral symbol. The pink blossoms propagate on thorny deciduous bushes that are indigenous to Canada. They’re prolific across the country, from Quebec to BC.
Today, people of Mexican heritagemake up Canada’s largest Latin- American subgroup. Historically, their presence in the great white
north can be traced back to the early oil industry booms that swept through Alberta in the 1930s. However, prior to the 1970s, the Mexican-Canadian community experienced very little growth, and remained quite small until the mid-90s.
Mexican immigration to Canada saw a sharp increase in 1994 that coincided with the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)—an accord that strengthened cultural, business and social relations between Canada, Mexico and the United States. Since then, the Mexican community has succeeded in establishing strong roots from sea to shining sea. Recent statistics show that Mexican-Canadians nowmake up a young, well-educated and dynamic segment of Canada’s increasingly diverse population.
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