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History

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  • Repeal of corn law 1791 - 1846

    This a Law that states that the Wheat and Flour that is from British North America are imported to Great Britian with lower tariff than Wheat and flour from any other coutries. The Corn Law made the price of bread high in GB. they decied to repeal the corn law and adopted the Free Trade.

  • the red river settlement - selkirk's first settelers

    Selkirk's first group of settelers are about 80 scottish people. they expericence cool winter, poor food because they came too late to plant crops.

  • the red river settlement - Selkirk's second settlers

    the second group of settlers are 18 woman over the age of 15, 1 girl and 11 children under eight. 1 woman give birth to a child on the ship during a storm on the way to Hudson Bay.

  • Incident at Seven Oaks 1814- 1816

    a young metis took settlers out to search for land, and they meet with the new governor, Robert Semple near a grove of trees named Seven Oaks. At the end 1 Metis and 21 settlers died. Later on, the Metis control over that area but Lord Selkirk brought 90 soldiers and took control.

  • fort Vancouver was build

    build on the north side of the columbia river, 130km from its mouth. After 1825, fort Vancouver became the larges HBC fort in the Pacific coast and the headquaters of the hudson bay company's columbia district.

  • 1843, Fort Victoria was built

    the united states was trying to control over the columbia valley. since Fort Vancouver was located there, HBC have to build a new fort for fur trading.
    they build Fort Victoria on the southeastern tip of vancouver Island.

  • 1846 the Treaty of Washington

    the treaty of washington divided british from United states by the 49th parallel. United states took control of the south of the 49th paralle and fort Vancouver and british have control of the north of the 49th parallel.

  • vancouver island became a british colony.

    fewer than 1000 people living on the island and only a few fur trade post on the main land ( New Caledonia ).

  • Reciprocity Treaty

    This Treaty States that the trade between the United States and British will not charge any taxes. Because U.S. and british have many of the things they need, the Colonies trade with U.S. more.

  • gold rush in lower fraser river

    the gold rush was a chance for getting rich for many people. the first gold rush was made by a small group who camed up from California.

  • Gold rush in Cariboo

    after the gold rush in Lower Fraser River, many people left because there was no more gold dust. some of the miners moved up to the Cariboo Region. they went to different creeks Williams Creek was the creek with the most gold dust.

  • Charlottetown Conference

    This was first a conference about the Maritime coloines forming a Maritime Union and uniting under a central government. There were an uninvited guest, it was The united Province of Canada. The United province of Canada was convincing them to join them to make a larger union. They brought up an idea of confederation. some coloines agree, some disagree and some doesn't care, The result was a secound meeting in Quebec to discouse more.

  • Quebec Conference

    The Quebec Conference is about the creation of the new country -- Canada. All the Maritime Colonies attend which include New Found Land, after their meeting the 72 Resolutions was their result.

  • The London Cenference 1866-1867

    The London Conference is about ThE United Province of Canada, NOva Scotia and New Brunswick sailed over to London. They went to London to present the 72 resolution to the British offices, the leaders from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick had made some changes during their meeting their.

  • Ontario joined confederation

  • Quebec joined confederation

  • New Brunswick joined confederation

  • NOVA SCOTIA joined confederation

  • The British North America Act

    This act is he creation of the country Canada.

  • The British North America Act 1867

    the BNA act states the powers of the federal government and the Provincial government. the Federal government have more powers is because the government doesn't want the Provincial government to be strong and want them to work together, not create problems

  • Manitoba joined confederation

  • Northwest Territories joined confederation

  • British Columbia joined confederation

  • Prince Edwar Island joined confederation

  • The Indian Act

    This act states that the Metis are not in the Indian Status. First natio people that have Indian status live in a area called reserves. But usually the people that live in the reserves are people that are under the care of the government. Many people think that the Indian Act was the worest thing the government did to the Frist Nation People.

  • Yukon Territory joined confederation

  • Saskatchewan joined confederation

  • New Found Land joined confederation

  • Nunavut joined confederation