Baby Boom Children: The World They Were Born Into

HSB4U Chapter 5

Day 2

Chapter Inquiry Question

• How has the largest generation in our history, the baby boom, affected our society in each stage of their lives (as children, teenagers, adults and now as seniors)?

IMPACT

Returning

Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21. (2011). Are you in this picture? Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://www.pier21.ca/research/collections/image-collection/are-you-in-this-picture/

War brides

Soldiers, 1945

Many Children, Ottawa Nursery, c.1950

Schwartz, D. (2010, Dec. 31). Will a retirement boom start in 2011? Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2010/12/30/f-boomers-retire.html

My Mom

Jill Kaplun, on the right. Baby boomer born in 1946. Here is her family in 1954.

My Husband’s MomAnitra Dodge, 1950 or 51, Brantford.

Books for Kids

Ing, T. and Canadian Heritage Department. (N.d.). Publishing for children: McLelland and Stewart’s long legacy. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://hpcanpub.mcmaster.ca/case-study/publishing-children-mcclelland-amp-stewart039s-long-legacy

Farley Mowatt’s Lost in the Barrens, 1956.

Pierre Berton’s The Secret World of Og, 1961.

Girl Guides, 1955

Manitoba Historical Society. (2011, April 23). The life of Yosh Tashiro. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/mb_history/50/tashiro_y.shtml

Toronto in the 1950s

Urban Toronto. (2008). Forum: 1950s Toronto. Urban Toronto. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/showthread.php/7333-1950s-Toronto

Class Photo

Toronto Culture. (N.d.). Toronto school children c. 1953. The history of Toronto: an 11 000 year journey. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://www.toronto.ca/culture/history/gallery/ch6/classroom.htm

“In 1951, 59,402 children were enroled in the public elementary system in Toronto. By 1966, there were 77,212 attending elementary schools in the city.”

University Students

Bradburn, J. (2012, Feb. 4). Historicist: Post-ing about Toronto. Torontoist. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://torontoist.com/2012/02/historicist-post-ing-about-toronto/

Subway Construction, 1950

BlogTO. (2010, Nov. 21). Toronto of the 1950s. BlogTO. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://www.blogto.com/city/2010/11/toronto_of_the_1950s/

Car Life

Chuckman, J. (2012, Feb. 1). Chuckman’s Photos on Wordpress: Toronto Nostalgia. Postcard: Toronto Lawrence Plaza, early 1950s. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://chuckmantorontonostalgia.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/postcard-toronto-lawrence-plaza-cars-parked-zellers-woolworth-belgium-early-1950s/

1953 Pontiac Pathfinder Deluxe

Canada Science Technology Museum. (N.d.). In search of the Canadian car. Pontiac Pathfinder Deluxe. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://www.canadiancar.technomuses.ca/eng/espace_dexposition-showroom/pontiac_pathfinder/ads

Made in Oshawa, ON. “In 1953, the average Canadian family lived on an annual income of $2,714. A Pontiac Pathfinder would have cost that family $2,738.”

Yonge and York Mills, 1957

Flack, D. (2011, Sept. 8). BlogTO. What the suburbs used to look like around Toronto. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://www.blogto.com/city/2011/09/what_the_suburbs_used_to_look_like_around_toronto/

Don Mills

Aladone. (2010, May 10). Toronto Before: Then and Now. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://torontobefore.blogspot.ca/2010/05/then-and-now-lawrence-ave-looking-east.html

Don Mills

Javed, N. (2009, March 21). Toronto’s mother of all suburbs: Don Mills. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://www.thestar.com/news/article/606039--toronto-s-mother-of-all-suburbs-don-mills

YMCI

• http://valdodge.com/2007/04/23/from-farm-to-suburb/

Dodge, V. (2007, April 23). From farm to suburb. Dodgeville. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://valdodge.com/2007/04/23/from-farm-to-suburb/

Bayview and York Mills, 1950.

Fashion

Fashion: an option under the Home Economics Course at Ryerson. First graduating class was 1950.

Ryerson University Library and Archives. (N.d.). Instructor and student; school of fashion, 1957-1958. Archives and Special Collections. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://www.ryerson.ca/archives/historical_images/fashion.html

Eaton’s

Eaton’s ad in the Montreal Gazette, May 1959.

Today’s Inspiration. (2012, March 21). Jack Parker, Eugenie Groh & Georgine Strathy: The Montreal Eaton's Store Powerhouse Fashion Art Team. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.ca/2012/03/jack-parker-eugenie-groh-georgine.html

Queen Elizabeth, 1957

Davison, J. (2012, Feb. 13). Queen Elizabeth: the public and private monarch. CBC News: World – photo galleries. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/02/13/f-elizabeth-the-queen-bedell-smith.html

Hockey Night in Canada First Airs on TV, 1952

CBC TV 75th Anniversary. (2011, Oct. 5). Part of the fabric of Canada. Retrieved April 22, 2012 from http://www.cbc.ca/75/2011/10/part-of-the-fabric-of-canada.html

Five Causes of the Baby Boom

• For each cause, using pages 147-149, define your key concept and give a statistic to show how this factor helped cause the baby boom. Share with class after.1. Increased birth rate

2. Increased marriage rate and marriage as the norm

3. Age of marriage for men and women

4. Increased immigration rate and characteristics of immigrants

5. War brides

Application

• Look at the graphs at each station and identify their main conclusions. Use the key concepts we have been learning since yesterday: – Demography– Social trend– Population growth– Natural increase– Natural decrease– Net migration– Baby boom generation– Cohort– Population pyramid

Don’t forget to “read” the graph carefully: title, labels of axes.

Back to Five Causes Groups

• Which of the 7 graphs you just looked at would best illustrate/match/accompany your cause of the baby boom?

• Why?

Handout 2 and 3

• Use the data in handout 2 to fill in the blanks on handout 3 (in your course handout package).

• We will need handout 3 later in the chapter so please complete it.

You will need a calculator or your phone.

HW

1. Read page 150 and do questions 2 and 4 on page 151.

2. Work on CCA as needed.

3. Complete handout 3.

Practice Graphs

• http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/as-sa/98-310-x/98-310-x2011003_1-eng.pdf