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sectional conflict between the Northern US states (Union) and the Southern states that seceded and formed the Confederacy
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statute enacted 29 March 1867 by the British Parliament providing for Confederation.
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The Alaska boundary dispute, took place between Canada and the US over the boundary of the Alaska Panhandle running south to latitude 54°40' north on the coast of BC
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the union of the British North American colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Canada was achieved 1 July 1867 under the new name, Dominion of Canada
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Colonial and Imperial Conferences, 1887-1937, the principal means of high-level consultation between representatives from the United Kingdom, Canada and other self-governing parts of the British Empire - Commonwealth, helping to shape a framework of substantial economic and military co-operation, but consistently rejecting all forms of imperial centralization
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Klondike Gold Rush, touched off by the 16 August 1896 discovery of placer goldon Rabbit Creek, a tributary of the Klondike River, by George Washington Carmack and his Indian brothers-in-law, "Skookum Jim" and "Tagish Charley."
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South African War (Boer War), 11 Oct 1899 to 31 May 1902 between Britain and the 2 Afrikaner republics of South Africa (SAR, or Transvaal) and the Orange Free State
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The Act proposed a small navy under the control of the Canadian government, with emergency provision for transfer to the British Admiralty
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On 4 August 1914 Britain's ultimatum to Germany to withdraw from Belgium expired
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Versailles, Treaty of, 28 June 1919, the peace settlement imposed on Germany after WORLD WAR I, drawn up at the Paris Peace Conference and signed near the French capital at Versailles.
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