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Constitutional Act creates Upper and Lower Canada
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Louis-Joseph Papineau is elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada
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Robert Gourlay is arrested for criticizing land policies in Upper Canada
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William Lyon Mackenzie establishes the Colonial Advocate
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Papineau becomes leader of the Patriotes
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Mackenzie is elected to the Legislative Assembly
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November: Battle of St. Charles
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December: Battle of Montgomery's Tavern
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Lord Durham arrives in Quebec
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Act of Union is passed
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Upper and Lower Canada became the province of Canada
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John A. Macdonald and George-Étienne Cartier met with delegates from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island to discuss a political union.
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The Quebec Conference, which continued the discussions at Charlottetown, began on 10 October and lasted two weeks
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First, in December of 1866, the delegates negotiated among themselves working through all 72 resolutions producing a final draft delivered to the Colonial Office on Christmas Day, 1866.
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Redrafting began with the new year in 1867 taking 2 months to complete
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The British North America Act passed the House of Commons on March 8, and received royal assent on March 29, 1867.
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Entered confederation
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Entered Confederation
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Entered Confederation
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The seal and cod fisheries improved significantly in 1869, and the anti-confederates regrouped around the leadership of Charles Fox Bennett
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The result was the Manitoba Act of 1870 which added a fifth province to the Canadian federation.
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Entered Confederation
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With little regard for the claims of the Indian nations, British Columbia entered Confederation in 1871. In the following year, Amor de Cosmos became Premier
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Prince Edward Island before Confederation was home to approximately 87,000 people. Most of the population was of Irish, Scottish, English, and Acadian descent. PEI entered confederation in 1873
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Alberta and Saskatchewan become the eighth and ninth provinces
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Finally, on 31 March 1949, Newfoundlanders became Canadian citizens. How that happened has been debated ever since
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In the 1970s the Inuit began to talk to the Canadian government about creating a new territory called Nunavut
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Nunavut became a Territory
