Canada Expands West Political Cartoon

Master MacDonald travels to a new world to encounter and change the land better than home at any cost.

	Describe	Document	Interpret
Cartoon	A warrior is wiping out all the targets or symbols he see’s that are in his path. The symbols are historical images that the warrior is trying to change by taking them all out of the room so he could make it the way he wants. 1. On the floor shows people constructing the railroad. 2. The other one behind the warrior is a whiskey trader trading for fur. 3. On the wall is showing a fur trader and a hunter. 4. The other shows a cabin with a teacher teaching a man and a man giving another man that is about to go farming a document. 5. The women that has the areas looking like she is going to shoot the warrior is an aboriginal hunter. 6. On the floor and is in front of the warrior is as HBC trading post sign. 7. In the top corner of the room are people getting mad at the government member, because he wants to sell Rupert’s Land.  8. Above the warrior’s head is a hunter that is shooting a buffalo with another image attached to it. 9. The one, which is in the doorway leading outside, is a mom and a son on a horse with a cart that will transport the meat or the buffalo. 10. There is a war between people and the army with the commander.	1. MacDonald giving bidding money from the Pacific Scandal to Van Horne and Andrew Onderdonk so they can extend the railway into British Columbia. 2. An aboriginal is trading whiskey with the HBC for fur so he can have warmth and supplies. 3. A metis or aboriginal fur trader is hunting in order to supply food money for his family or his friends. 4. A European teacher is teaching a aboriginal the European culture at the school from the treaties. There is also a aboriginal that received farming tools from the treaties. Before he went to farm he received a script for land from a government member in a document. 5.  Is an aboriginal woman hunting and helping out her husband by supporting her and gathering the food and money in order to trade and not starve from hunger. 6. Is the HBC trading post sign where some of the trading for furs takes place for aboriginals and metis in that area. There is another trading area called the NWC, which did not make good business and after a while it was shutdown and the HBC was only standing. 7. The government and the HBC wanted to sell Rupert’s Land for more money and in order to confederate they would need to do so. They did not think of the fact that they are selling the metis land, which they lived on and that made them really mad, which could of started the rebellions in some way. 8. + 9. A metis hunter is hunting buffalo in order to have money and food. Money would be the thing they trade for fur so they can keep warm and have clothes. The metis wife and son helps with bringing back the buffalo meat by red river carts, and is hooked up to a horse, which is their transportation. 10. There is a battle, which is the Northwest Rebellion between Chief PoundMaker and his men against the Canadian Army. Frederick Middleton is the military commander of the Canadian Army so he sent out his troops to fight against the Aboriginals, because they were rebelling at Fort Battleford. They rebelled, because there were starving since there was disappearance of buffalo and also the fact they were moving into confederation also just like the Red River Rebellion.	The message is MacDonald did a lot of things to change Canada. He did not realize that he was affecting the metis and aboriginal’s lives in a bad way. He believed that Canada would be stronger if they went into confederation. Canada would not have the fear of American Annexation. By building the CPR this joined the country from east to west, which would transport more goods and get more supplies of food and other things they would need to survive. It would also allow Canadian troops to get to places faster to fight in the battles to protect Canada. I think what MacDonald did was so so, because the aboriginal’s and metis were affected by a lot of the changes he made, but it was good, because he also created Canada as a country.