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The Charlottetown conference was the meeting that shaped the laws and principles of our country Canada. This conference was responsible for Canada and its confederation being formed.
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New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario form confederation. John A. Macdonald becomes Canadas first prime minister.
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Manitoba and Northwest Territories join Confederation. Modern-day Manitoba is much bigger that it was back then.
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British columbia joins confederation
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Prince Edward Island joins Confederation. The North-West Mounted Police are formed.
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Gold is discovered in the Yukon. The gold rush that caused so many people to move out there was what formed mush of the infrastructure that is there today, such as many towns that started out as mining towns.
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The territory of Yukon joins Canadian Confederation.
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The Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan are formed.
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Provincially, women were given the vote in 1916 in the four western provinces, in 1917 in Ontario, in 1918 in Nova Scotia, in 1919 in New Brunswick, in 1922 in Prince Edward Island, and in 1940 in Quebec.
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The day we honor to remember the armistice agreement that ended the First World War on Monday, November 11, 1918, at 11 a.m.—on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
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Nunavut becomes an official territory of Canada
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Our most recent Prime Minister, Stephen Harper is elceted from the Conservative Party of Canada.
