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Hudson Bay Company:
The oldest incorporated joint stock company in the English-speaking world. Begun in 1670 and run as a monopoly devoted to the fur trade -
Halifax
The main British naval port in the West Atlantic in1749 -
Royal Proclamation
meant to protect Natives from uncontrolled white settlements. -
Quebec Act
intended to reorganize the ways British territories were governed. -
North-West Company
A major force in the fur trade from the 1780s to 1821 -
War of 1812
The war between the United States and Great Britain from 1812 to 1815 -
End of War of 1812
War ended. -
Great Migration
Period of immigration to Canada from 1815 to 1850. -
Confederation
Colonies joined into one country of Canada, -
First Prime Minister
Sir John A. Mcdonald.