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Founding of Quebec
Champlain Founds Québec. Samuel de Champlain sailed up the St. Lawrence River, which establishes the fur trade. Champlain had come to establish a trading post. Before 1608, the Amerindians occupied the land, but the French arrived and the power changed. -
Creation of the Company of One Hundred Associates
The company was established in order to develop France's external trade and officially established trading posts over the new territory. Due to the kings absolute power, the king give the monopoly of the fur trade to the company which allows d the territory to expand. -
Royal Government
In 1663, the royal governement was established. This new political system was put in place because the fur trading Companies did not fulfill its promise to colonize New France. -
Mgr. de Laval, first bishop of Quebec
He is the highest dignitary in the colony. He has no real power per say. His role is to ensure the spiritual well-being of the citizens of New France. Meaning that he takes care of all religious aspects in the colony. -
Great Peace of Montreal
One of the ways the Amerindians influenced the administrators of the colony was signing of the Great Peace in Montreal. This established peace between the Amerindians and the French. -
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War of the Conquest
Due to the winning of the battle of the Plains of Abraham, it allowed the change of power from the French Regime to the Britsh Rule. -
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British Military regime
This is the term usually applied to the period of military government which intervened between the capture of Quebec in 1759 and the definitive session of the French dominions in North America by the Peace of Paris in 1763. This was the change from the French regime to the British rule. -
Royal Proclamation
The British government issued an official announcement called the Royal Proclamation. The aim of the Royal Procalmation was to assimilate French-Speaking Canadiens and make them british. -
The Quebec Act
The Quebec Act was a gift for the French. The Quebec Act of 1774 , formally known as the British North America Act, was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain setting procedures of governance in the Province of Quebec. -
Constitutional Act
The Constitutional Act of 1791 was an Act of the British Parliament creating Upper Canada and Lower Canada. Although it was a first step towards Canadian Confederation, its rigid colonial structures also set the stage for rebellion in the two Canadas. -
92 Resolutions
The Ninety-Two Resolutions were drafted by Louis-Joseph Papineau and other members of the Parti Patriote of Lower Canada in 1834. The resolutions were a long series of demands for political reforms in the British-governed colony. Papineau had been elected speaker of the legislative assembly of Lower Canada in 1815. -
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Rebellions in Lower Canada
Rebellion in Lower Canada. The Rebellion in Lower Canada was led by Louis-Joseph Papineau and his Patriotes, as well as more moderate French Canadian nationalists, who together dominated the elected Legislative Assembly. The rebellions were motivated by frustrations with political reform. A key shared goal was responsible government, which was eventually achieved in the incidents' -
Act of Union
It abolished the legislatures of Lower Canada and Upper Canada and established a new political entity, the Province of Canada to replace them. This act effected the political union of the Province of Canada, and was similar in nature and in goals to the other Acts of Union enacted by the British Parliament. -
British North America Act
The Act, also known as the BNA Act, comprises a major part of the Constitution of Canada. The Act entails the original creation of a federal dominion and sets the framework for much of the operation of the Government of Canada, including its Federal structure, the House of Commons, the Senate, the justice system, and the taxation system. -
Conscription Crisis
The Conscription Crisis of 1917 was a political and military crisis in Canada during World War I. It was mainly caused by disagreement on whether men should be conscripted to fight in the war. -
Women's right to vote
A few other notes about the history of women voting in Canada: In 1916, women had earned the vote in Manitoba. Eventually, other provinces extended the vote to women as well. In 1917, Canada's federal electoral law stipulated that "idiots, madmen, criminals and judges" were not allowed to vote. -
Maurice Duplessis, Premier
Duplessis union national won the first of four successive elections, which returned him to power. Duplessis political ideas were based on liberalism and on French Canadian Nationalism that em^hasized catholcism, agricluture and provincial autononmy. -
Padlock Act
Duplessis believed that unions were a communist idea. Duplessis had the Quebec Legislative Assembly adopt the Act to Protect the Province against Communistic Propaganda, Known as the Padlock law. -
Women's right to vote
The United States gave women equal voting rights in all states with the Nineteenth Amendment ratified in 1920. Canada and a few Latin American nations passed women's suffrage before World War II while the vast majority of Latin American nations established women's suffrage in the 1940s. Women's right to vote was recognized federally in 1918 and provincially in 1940. -
Conscription Crisis, 1942
The Conscription Crisis of 1942 was a political and military crisis following the introduction of forced military service in Canada during World War II. It was similar to the Conscription Crisis of 1917 but was not as politically damaging. -
Nationalization of electricity
Problems continued to persist for a good decade before the government of Premier Adélard Godbout finally nationalized the Montreal Light, Heat and Power Company on April 14, 1944. A new government corporation known as Hydro-Québec took over the supply of electricity on the island of Montréal. -
October Crisis
Members of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnapped the provincial cabinet minister Pierre Laporte and the British diplomat James Cross. In response, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invoked the only peacetime use of the War Measures Act. The kidnappers murdered Laporte, and negotiations led to Cross's release and the kidnappers' exile to Cuba. -
Referendum on sovereignty-association
The Québec referendum of 1980, on the Parti Québécois government’s plans for sovereignty-association, was held in fulfilment of a promise that the party had made to do so, during the 1976 election campaign that brought it to power. In this referendum, the government asked the people of Québec to give it a mandate to “negotiate a new constitutional agreement with the rest of Canada, based on the equality of nations.” -
Meech Lake Accord
The Meech Lake Accord is a series of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada negotiated in 1987 by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the 10 provincial premiers. It was intended to persuade the government of Quebec to symbolically endorse the 1982 constitutional amendments by providing for some decentralization of the Canadian federation. -
Referendum on sovereignty
The failure of the Meech Lake Accord and the Charlottetown Accord left considerable uncertainty about the constitutional future of Canada. The first sign was a dramatic change in the political landscape of the House of Commons following the 1993 election. The Progressive Conservative Party, associated with former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the failed accords, was virtually wiped out. -
"Paix des Braves" agreement
The Agreement Respecting a New Relationship Between the Cree Nation and the Government of Quebec (La Paix des Braves), is an agreement signed between the Government of Quebec and the Grand Council of the Crees. This historic Agreement implements with respect to Quebec recommendations of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and provides for the sharing of revenues derived from mining, hydroelectric development and forestry carried out on the traditional lands of the Cree People.
