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Jan 1, 1534
The Fur Trade Starts
he Fur Trade was an adjunct to the fishig industry in the beginning. The beaver also played a key part in making the Fur Trade. It started as a fashion trend for men in Europe. The competion was fierce between France and England to control Canada's land and it's resources. -
Jan 1, 1534
Fur Trade is in Full Swing
People faced a lot of problems especially because you had to come to the fort, that doesn't sound like a big problem does it, well this isn't your every day walk to the grocery store. People came from Europe to Canada! -
Jan 1, 1534
Environment Takes a Hit From the Fur Trade
The buisness itself was trading animal fur, to get the animal fur you have to kill the animal. In Canada, they traded fox, beaver, marten, mink, and otter. -
Jan 1, 1574
Samuel de Champlain is Born
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Prince Rupert is Born
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Radisson and Groseilliers are Born
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James Knight is Born
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Matonabbee is Born
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Peter Pond is Born
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Thomas Douglas is Born
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George Simpson is Born
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Alexander Tilloch Galt is Born
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Alexander Mackenzie is Born
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James George is Born
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Sir Sanford Fleming is Born
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Andrew Onderdonk is Born
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Robert Henderson is Born
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Gold Rush Starts
It all started on Rabbit Creek when Henderson didn't sell any tobacco to the Indians. They wanted to get revenge on them so they told everybody that there was gold. -
The Search For Gold is in Full Swing
The problems that people faced were phenomenal like, many people knew little about mining. Prospectors ate a diet of beans and bacon.They had little clothing apart from what they could wear and what they could carry. Hard labour, long winters, swarms of summer mosquitoes were only some of things prospectors had to go through just to get a shot at striking it rich and most of them died because of mining accidents, anyway. -
George Washington Carmack is Born
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Cariboo Road
As a result of the gold rush we had to build Cariboo Road which used natural resorces -
Casey Jones is Born
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Environment Takes a Hit From the Gold Rush
If everybody is panning for gold the surface gold is going to get depleated so your going to need to use explosives to bring the gold to the top. Many wanted to mine for gold but others saw it as an opportunity to build factories and that is just what American buisnessmen did, which again is pollution. -
Ontario
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Quebec
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Nova Scotia
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New Brunswick
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The British North America Act
The British North American Act was the statute created out 3 former British colonies, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the province of Canada (Quebec and Ontario.) The British North American Act made Canada, Canada -
Manitoba
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The Northwest Territories
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British Columbia
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Prince Edward Island
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Robert Service is Born
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Yukon
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Environment takes a hit from the railroad
To make a railroad you need something to place it on so it was wood, which is using a natural resource. Then they began to use steel which for the last time now is using a natural resource. It affectedthe earth back then but, it also opened a door for pollution in the modern day such as, trains produce nitrogen dioxide and carbon dioxide. -
The Start of Building The Railroad
Roads were bumpy, roads were muddy, in winter, roads froze over which put an end to to navigation, the only solution, a railroad! The confedaration in 1867 also influenced the government of Canada to build a railroad. -
Railroad Construction is in Full Swing
As a worker on the railroad you had to face a lot of challenges you lived in dingy log houses, you ate a diet of salted pork and corned beef. There was no doctors or nurses so if you got sick you'd just have to get over it. -
Alberta
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Saskatchewan
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James Houston is Born
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Newfoundland
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The Constitution Act
The Constitution Act of 1982 gave Canada full independance. The Constitution Act is the British North American Act with several amendments. It came with a Charter af Rights and Freedoms. These are only
a few of the many rights in Canada because of the Constitution Act. -
Nunavut
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Gold Rush Today
The gold rush influenced Britain in to making BC a British colony it also influenced the bringing of BC into Canada. Bonanza Creek and Dawson were made towns because of the gold rush. -
Fur Trade Today
The town Rupert's Land was made from the Fur Trade. The fur Trade lead to 1867 confedaration and those claims from the fur traders help establish the border between Canada and the US. -
Railroad Today
The railroad linked Canada togther as a country and without it Canada wouldn't be a country. The railroad replaced horses and gave way to automobiles. Many communities sprang up beside the tracks such as, Port Moody, Banff, Calgary, Medicine Hat, Swift Current, Regina, Brandon, Porta La Prarie, Winnepeg, Kenora, Thunder Bay, North Bay, Ottawa, Toronto, Sudbury.
