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Acadian's are exiled from their homes
The Acadians did not want to take an oath of allegiance to Britain. After all that Charles Lawrence locked them up and had them deported. Families were being separated, houses and crops were burnt to the ground. -
The Conquest
General James Wolfe was led by a British invasion and there both order officers were killed in the battle and the British defeated the French. -
Lord Durham’s report encourages the assimilation of the Francophone colonists
From 1837 to 1838 in upper and lower Canada where Lord Burham was sent to British North America. He went there to look into the causes of the rebellion and he reported needing unification also a responsible government. -
The Indian Act is first created
The Act was a point to eliminate First Nations culture in favor of assimilation into Canadian society in 1876. In 1951 and 1985 the act has been changing several times, most significantly. The changes mostly consist of removing unfair sections. -
Chinese Head tax
Canadian Pacific Railway was built which was after some Chinese people wanted to immigrate to Canada. Their labor was not needed, so the Canadian government didn’t really want them anymore. The Chinese had to pay head tax under the immigration act and they had to pay $50 per person. It was raised to $100 and then to $500. In the end, Chinese people paid $23 million. -
Conscription crisis during World War One
The men stopped volunteering to fight in the First World War in 1916. In 1917, the conscription crisis started. It divided the whole country into two groups, which the people who were opposed to the idea and the people who agreed to it. -
Canada adopts official multiculturalism
The first country that develops a multicultural policy was Canada. Basically what was meant as a policy compound to rising francophone nationalism and the cultural diversity in Canada.