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The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850. It provides that even free people can be made a slave if suspected of being a runaway. As a result, more fugitive slaves and free Black people come to Canada. -
The first wave of miners from California arrived at Victoria, en route to the Fraser River Gold Rush. It began after gold was discovered in that region. In 1858, around 30,000 gold seekers flooded the banks of the Fraser River in hopes to strike it rich and sell the gold. -
The Charlottetown Conference was held in Charlottetown, PEI. It was there so representatives from the colonies can discuss Canadian Confederation. It was decided that the idea of the British North American union had enough merit to warrant further discussion and formal planning. -
The first of July, 1867 was the day Canada officially became Canada. Confederation offered Britain an honourable way to ease its economic and military burden in North America. Canada finally became independent and all the provinces came together to form one big country. Over the years since Confederation, Canada has seen a couple of territorial changes and expansions, resulting in the current number of ten provinces and three territories. -
The Red River Resistance (also known as The Red River Rebellion) was an uprising in 1869–70 in the Red River Colony. The Métis which was led by Louis Riel and First Nations allies defended the Red River Colony from White settlers and government. They were against the Canadian government leading to the creation of the province of Manitoba. -
The colony of British Columbia was founded in 1858 in response to the Fraser River Gold Rush. Thirteen years later the colony joined the big family of Canada as the country's sixth province on 20 July 1871. Three years later on the opposite coast, PEI joins Canada as well. PEI voters had the option of accepting Confederation or having increased taxes. Of course, they accepted Confederation
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The first treaty, which became known as Treaty 1, was to be made at the “Stone Fort”. What states in the treaty is that the Anishinabe agreed to “cede, release, surrender and yield up to Her Majesty the Queen, and Her successors forever” a large tract of very valuable land to the west and north of Manitoba as it existed in 1871 -
The Indian act was implemented on April 12th, 1876. The Indian Act aimed to assimilate Indigenous peoples into mainstream society and contained policies intended to terminate their cultural, and social personalities. Some even say this was so that they would act more "civilized". -
On November 7, 1885, the last nail was installed on the Canadian Pacific Railway. This fulfilled a government promise to connect BC to Eastern Canada via a transcontinental railway. Although the Canadian pacific railway was a great achievement there was a sacrifice to it. Among the workers who built the railway were 15,000 labourers from China, many of those died during the railway’s construction. -
The first-ever Stanley Cup, donated by Governor General Lord Stanley, was first awarded to the Montreal AAA hockey team. Although this is not a very significant event in Canadian history I thought this would be something nice to know. -
The Klondike Gold Rush lasted from 1897 to 1899 and at least 100,000 people stampeded to the goldfields all for the same purpose. To sell gold and to make a fortune. Although it boosted the economy there were a lot of negative impacts to it. many of these impacts include impacts on the local environment, causing massive soil erosion, water contamination, deforestation and loss of native wildlife. But arguably the worst part of it was forcing Native people out of their homes, in search of gold. -
Alberta joined Confederation along with Saskatchewan in 1905 when the two new provinces were created out of a section of the Northwest Territories. On September 1st, 1905 they officially joined the big family of Canada and officially became provinces. -
World War I, also known as the Great War, began in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Many Canadians were lost in WWI and it was an event that changed the world.
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