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American invasion of Upper Canada in the summer of 1812 centring around the Great Lakes and the Canadian frontier.
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Also known as the upper and lower Canada rebellions. The rebellions was about the canadian people trying to gain freedom from the British government.
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The Battle of Ridgeway was fought in the vicinity of the town of Fort Erie across the Niagara River from Buffalo, NY near the village of Ridgeway.
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is the national police force of Canada, and one of the most recognized of its kind in the world.
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The North-West Rebellion of 1885 was a brief and unsuccessful uprising by the Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel against the Dominion of Canada.
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The Canadian Pacific Railway, is a historic Canadian Class I railroad founded in 1881 and now operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001.
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The Klondike Gold Rush, also called the Yukon Gold Rush, the Alaska Gold Rush and the Last Great Gold Rush, was an attempt by an estimated 100,000 people to travel to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1897 and 1899 in the hope of successfully prospecting for gold.
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The first Canadian troops sent overseas participate in the Boer War in South Africa.
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The War Measures Act was a statute of the Parliament of Canada that provided for the declaration of war, invasion, or insurrection, and the types of emergency measures that could thereby be taken.
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The air force, army, and navy are unified as the Canadian Armed Forces.
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Canada gains a new Constitution and Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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