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Based on the Economic history of Canada, please select true or false for the below statements

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Based on the Economic history of Canada, please select true or false for the below statements. Thanks.

1. The story of Eliza Ord shows that when it came to business matters, men and women were treated equally during the British Columbia gold rushes.

2. Many early Chinese immigrants to British Columbia specialized in jobs that some white Canadians considered to be “women’s work”.

3. B.C.’s opium export business came to an end when the United States raised the tax on opium imports so high that foreign opium manufacturers, such as those in Victoria, could not compete with U.S.-produced opium.

4. While Canada’s ‘points’ system rewards potential immigrants for having skills and education, it is often difficult to have these skills and education recognized in Canada.

5. Partly because of British (U.K.) diplomatic relationships with Japan, Japanese immigrants were treated differently than Chinese immigrants in early British Columbia.

6. Grants of land to the Canadian Pacific Railway (C.P.R.) by the government of Canada dramatically sped up settlement of Canada’s prairie provinces (Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan) by incentivizing the C.P.R. to advertise the land all around the world and sell almost all of it as cheaply as possible and as soon as possible.

7. In the late 1800s, the North West Land Company offered to settle thousands of poor Scottish farming families (crofters) in Canada.

8. The early success of Mackenzie & Mann’s Canadian Northern Railway was due in part to a specific clause in the Canadian Pacific Railway’s charter (and the enforcement of that clause by the Canadian government).

9. The ‘American Invasion’ of the Canadian prairies started in 1904, when Colonel Davidson offered ready-made farms for sale near Edmonton. His eye-catching advertisements and ‘immigration literature’ went viral and attracted the attention of California farmers, convincing them to move from California to Alberta.

10. The Canadian Pacific Railway’s ready-made farms were initially popular with women farmers.

11. In the early 1900s, a lack of dower laws in Canada’s western provinces left married women vulnerable to having their home sold or willed away by their husbands without their consent.

12. Technological improvements in farming machinery meant that it was much easier to successfully farm on the Canadian prairies in the 1900s than it would have been in 1880s.

13. The Corn Laws restricted British imports of corn on the cob, popcorn and ‘feed’ corn used as food for farm animals. Before the laws, Canadian farmers were predominantly corn producers, and sold most of that corn to Britain. After the Corn Laws were put in place, Canadian farmers were forced to move away from corn production and to the production of wheat (in Quebec) and cheese (in Ontario). The few corn producers that remained exported most of their corn to the U.S., where they faced competition from U.S. corn farmers.

14. All of Canada’s wheat farmers were very happy with the 1919-1920 Canadian wheat board. After the wheat board ended, two years of lobbying by the United Grain Growers of Alberta eventually resulted in a second Federal Wheat Board being created in 1922. Selling to the Federal Wheat Board was made mandatory in 1935.

15. Technological improvement in housework, such as the introduction of the washing machine, could paradoxically lead to more work for some women.

16. The separation of women’s and men’s spheres, along with a move toward urbanization and electrification, could lead to an increased burden of housework for married women.

17. The assumption that women are only in the workforce until they marry was used to justify lower wages for women, and the lack of a “family” wage meant women had to find additional sources of income - such as marriage to a husband with a full-time job.