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The Conquest (Battle on the Plains of Abraham)
Who:Canada, Great Britain, French
What: it was a battle and Great Britain promised French people a better living
When:1759
Where:Canada
Why:Because it made things better -
The Royal Proclamation determines that First Nations are sovereign
Who: King George III
What: He reserved the western lands as exclusive hunting grounds for the several nations or tribes of Indians under his protection
When: 1763
Where: Western lands
Why: He claimed ultimate dominion over the entire region. He prohibited any private person from directly buying aboriginal lands. -
Acadians are exiled from their homes
Who:soldiers and citizens
What: They rounded them up expelling them from their land and burning their home and crops.
When:1764
Where:Canada
Why:Because over the years Acadians became more and more precious. and then one day there homes and crops got burned so they had to move away because they were told to. -
Lord Durham’s report encourages the assimilation of the Francophone colonists
Who:Durham and Francophone
What:He wrote a report and drew a bunch of places in.
When:1839
Where:Canada
Why: Because he was asked to come to Canada to investigate the upper and lower part of Canada important because many people then didn't like French speaking people but then when this dude pretty much wanted us to learn about the Francophone we took it in. -
The Indian Act is first created
Who: First Nations
What: The Indian act is the principle statue which the federal government administers Indian statues.
When: 1876
Where: Canada
Why: The indian act was only for First Nations not Metis or Inuit. It enabled human rights and stuff. -
Riel Rebellion
Who :Meties militants and there aboriginal allies
What: It was a five month insurgency against the Canadian government.
When:1885
Where:Canada
Why:Because it was caused by rising fear and insecurity among the metis and aboriginal people as well as the white settlers of the rapidly changing west. -
Manitoba Schools Question becomes an issue in the federal election
Who: Manitoba government
What: Francophone in Manitoba struggling to get an education
When:1890
Where :Manitoba
Why: They pretty much made French schools for catholic and English schools for everybody else so not all people that wanted to speak french or was french could go to the french school unless they were catholic. This is important to Canadian nationalism because it was one of the most important school crisis -
Confederation - 1867
Who: Canada
What: Canada wasn't born out of revolution or nationalism, it was created in a series of conferences and orderly negotiations. The union of the British North American colonies or New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the province of Canada were slow but steady steps in nation-building.
When:1897
Where:Canada
Why: Support for Confederation wasn't universal indigenous people were never asked if they wanted to join. -
Conscription crisis during World War One
Who:English and French
What:The French didn't want to fight for Britain so they looked like weaker people since the English were fighting.
When:1917
Where:Canada
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Chinese Head Tax discriminates against Chinese immigration
who:Chinese people
what:They had to pay $50 (later raised to $100 and then to $500) to come into Canada
when:Between 1885 and 1923
where:Canada
why:Because Canadians didn't want to let Chinese people into Canada because we didnt like them. This is important because this also changed Canada after they stopped doing it because now we just have a bunch of people from different culture in our Country and we dont agree with it. -
Chinese Immigration Act
Who:Chinese people
What; Chinese people weren't aloud into Canada unless they filled out a card which took 12 months
When:1923
Where: Canada
Why:Because Canada was anti-Chinese so we had an Anti-Chinese act. This is important to Canadian nationalism because its what Canada wanted and that what made us happy if it didn't happen Canada could've been taken over by a bunch of Chinese people. -
The referendum is held to decide if Newfoundland should join Canada
Who :Newfoundand and Canada
What: There was a vote and it was very close.people in Newfoundland wanted to be there own Nation state but the vote was 53.6% to not be there own.
When:1949
Where:Canada
Why: Newfoundland didn't want to be apart of Canada they wanted to be independent This is important to Canadian nationalism because if Newfoundland did end up being there own Nation state things could've been different in Canada -
Quiet Revolution
Who:Jean Lesage
What:His party came to power in the 1960s and they introduced many reforms called the quite revolution
When: 1960s
Where:Quebec
Why:Because the Quebec liberal party had developed a coherent and wide range platform. as a new middle class battled for greater control over Quebec's economic resources, many attempts were made to redefine the role of francophone in Canada. -
Election of the Parti Quebecois
Who :René Lévesque
What:Its a nationalist political party formed in Quebec.
When: 1968
Where:Quebec
Why:Because they won there first election with 23.5 per cent of the popular vote but only 7 seats in the national assembly. -
The White Paper on Aboriginal Rights
Who: Canadian government
What: It was a Canadian government policy paper that attempted to abolish previous legal documents like the Indian act and treaties.
When: 1969
Where: Canada
Why:Because they wanted to assimilate all Indian peoples under that canadian state This is important because it was one again trying make people equal and bring more people into canada -
FLQ Crisis
Who:James CROSS
What: The crisis started with the kidnapping of James Cross, He was a British trade commissioner in Montreal. It developed into the most serious terrorist attack
When: October 5 1970
Where: Quebec
Why: It happened again it was a bunch of terrorist that kidnapped important people and caused hurt to people. Help would led to peacetime in Canada -
The Red Paper
Who: Pierre Trudeau
What:It was a response to the white paper being rejected, it was also known as Citizen plus embodied the national Aboriginal stance on the White paper statement, there is nothing more important than our treaties and our lands.
When:1970
Where:Canada
Why: Pierre wanted and just society and wanted to eliminate the Indian act but the government saw it as discrimination. If it went through it could've caused problems -
Canada adopts official multiculturalism
Who:The federal Government
What:Protect and promote diversity
When:1971
Where:Canada
Why:Because they recolonized Aboriginal people and that they deserved a chance so we pretty much let other people in Canada to be nice. This is important because its happening in Canada and some Canadians didn't agree with it so it wasn't fair. -
The Calder Case
Who:Frank Calder
What:He reviewed the existence of Aboriginal title claim over lands historically occupied by the Nisga'a people of northwestern British Columbia.
When:1973
Where:Canada
Why:The Calder case is considered the foundation for the Nisga'a Treaty in 2000 the first modern land claim in British Columbia that gave Nisga'a people a self-government. -
The NEP (National Energy Program) is implemented
Who: Federal Government
What:Gain greater control over the Canadian petroleum industry
When: 1980
Where:Canada
Why:Because its been hard to control oil and keep the prices from going way high up so there trying to fix everything(oil and Alberta oil wealth) This is important because it shows that Canada cares about oil and gas and the prices and we don't want to have everything all messed up, it pretty much shows that well do anything for our country. -
Referendum 1980
Who :Parti Quebecois government
What: Plans for sovereignty association, It was held in fulfillment of a promise that the party had made.
When:1980
Where:Quebec
Why:The government ask people of Quebec to pretty much negotiate a new constitutional agreement with the rest of Canada, when the votes were counted about 60% of Quebec had disagreeing with it. Its important because it was pretty much a fight to make new plans within Canada. -
Quebec refuses to sign the constitution
Who:Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Jean Chrétien, and nine premiers
What: They gave up on Quebec and signed the constitutional deal
When:1981
Where:Quebec
Why:Because everyone had there reason for it, Negotiations for a new Constitution were stalling. -
Bill 101 is passed into law in Quebec
Who :Surperem court of Canada
What: They declared invalid section 72 and section 73 of the bill 101, concerning English-Language schooling in Quebec.
When:1984
Where:Canada
Why:Because section 23 of the Charter gave Canadians whose first language learned and still understood, and that they should be taught the language the grew up with. This was important because kids were not getting taught the language they grew up with and parents were not very happy with it. -
Meech Lake Accord
Who :Progressive Conservative government
What: Brian Mulroney attempted to win Quebec's consent to the revised Canadian constitution.
When: 1987
Where: Quebec
Why: It ended up being an agreement between the federal and provincial government. Declaring Quebec a distinct society. This is important because it had to do with Canada -
The Oka Crisis
Who:Mohawk protesters, Police, and army
What:They wanted to expand a golf course on disputed land that included a Mohawk burial ground.
When:1990
Where:Canada
Why:Because in the 18 century the Mohawk had been pressing the government to recognize there right in the land but there request had been largely ignored -
Formation of the Bloc Quebecois
Who:A bunch of different people
What:It is a federal political party that was officially created in June 1991
When:1991
Where:Quebec
Why:it runs 75 Quebec ridings. It was always founded as a parliamentary movement composed of Quebec MPs. The party promotes Quebec's interests and Quebec sovereignty. -
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Who: Aboriginal people
What: It was a broad survey of historical and contemporary relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Canada
When:1991
Where: Canada
Why: Because the report made several recommendations the majority of which were not fully implemented. But it was a significant for the scope and dept of research and it remains an important document of Aboriginal people in Canada This is important because its an important document of Canada -
Charlottetown Accord
Who:Government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
What:It was to get Quebec consent to the constitution act of 1982
When:1992
Where:Canada
Why:it was to decentralized many Federal powers and provinces, and it was rejected mostly by Canadian voters in a referendum -
Referendum 1995
Who:Jacques Parizeau
What:Referendum on Quebec sovereignty
When:1995
Where:Quebec
Why:It was to settle a narrow victory for the no camp. Its important because most Quebec people said no to the 1980 referendum -
Supreme Court determines that turbans can be worn with the RCMP uniform – reasonable accommodation
Who: Baltej Singh Dillon
What: Trying to make turbans part of the RCMP dress code
Where: Canada
When: 1998-90
How:He had a debate over the right to wear a turban and a bread and eventually he was aloud This effected Canadian Nationalism because we are letting more people from different cultures in our world and that's a big deal. -
Recognition of Quebecois nation 2006
Who: Stephean Harper
What: He wanted to form a nation within Canada
When: 2006
Where: Quebec
Why: Harper didnt want Quebec to become independant This is important to Canada because there adding a new nation inside Canada -
The publication of the TRC 94 Calls to Action
Who: Everyone
What: The TRC was made public
When: Between 2007 and 2015
Where: Canada
Why: To make things better in Canada and make things equal
How: they make 94 rules pretty much that have to be followed This is important to Canadian nationalism because it changed the way people has looked at things. -
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Who :Delaine Copenace
What: She was out with a couple of friends and then she went missing last year in February
When:2017
Where:Canada
Why:They wanted to give the families closer and to take down the missing peoples papers. This is important because it happen in Canada and it shows that people will do anything to help families in Canada dealing with this stuff. -
Canada apologizes for Residential Schools
Who:Justin Trudeau
What:He apologized to servitors of Residential schools he also said that saying sorry will not heal the wounds of pain that has happen to them.
When:2017
Where:Canada
Why:Because he said that the apology was long over due, he also said that the treatment of indigenous children in residential schools was a shameful chapter in our country's history.
