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95 canadians signed a petition asking for justice to be in french, for the kings orders to be in french and for canadians to be alout to act as Jurors or Lawyers
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This act declared that all of the french speaking population of Quebec would be able to retain their language, religion and social structure, but would limit their political power (No government)
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This Canadian news paper was created in retaliation of the creation of an American Newspaper
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Creation of the first univisity in Canada Mcgill University
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A failure of the potato crop in Ireland cause a widespread famine and led many to emigrate to Canada
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Guillaume Sayer was put on trial in 1849 for illegal fur trading, this goes to show how canada was developping even back then.
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The parliament of United Canada in montreal was set on fire by a mob of angry protesters following the passing of an indemnity bill
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In england politial climate convinces George Brown that british north america should unite as a country as they include the coast and ruperts land in the HBC, they decide to build a continent wide country: CANADA
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Three important politicians who attended this conferance are George Brown, John A. McDonald and George-Etienne Cartier. Their main goal was to form a country, Canada. The Arguments favouring Confederation that were presented at the Charlottetown Conferance are that the colonys are economically week and might benifit from this union
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Canada becomes a country