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Acadians are exiled from their homes
Who: The Acadians
What: Were exiled from their homes
Where: Port Royal
When: 1755
Why: British thought they were a threat to land -
The Conquest (Battle on the Plains of Abraham)
Who: British, French
What: British Invasion to take Quebec
When: 1759
Where: Quebec
Why: British wanted to regain land -
The Royal Proclamation determines that First Nations are sovereign
Who: King George III and the First Nations
What: First Nations treaty
When: 1763
Where: Canada
Why: First Nations laws state they don’t have to purchase the land there given in Canada -
Lord Durham’s report encourages the assimilation of the Francophone colonists
Who: Lord Durham
What: The union of 2 Canada’s
When: 1838
Where: Canada
Why: Wanted to turn upper and lower Canada into 1 whole -
Confederation - 1867
Who: Edward Caldwell
What: Making Canada
When: 1867
Where: Canada
Why: The fear of cost defending British colonies from the USA -
The Indian Act is first created
Who: First Nations
What: Act to make sure reserve land is maintained
When: 1876
Where: Canada
Why: Protects there culture -
Chinese Head Tax discriminates against Chinese immigration
Who: Canadian government and Chinese immagrints
What: Chinese had to pay head tax
When: 1885-1923
Where: Canada
Why: The government wanted to limit the number of Chinese immagrints -
Riel Rebellion
Who: Canadian government and the metis
What: Battle against the government
When: 1885
Where: What’s now known as Alberta and Saskatchewan
Why: Fear of the changes in the west -
Conscription crisis during World War One
Who: Canadians
What: Thousands of Canadians fought for Britain
When: 1917
Where: Belgium
Why: If men should have been conscripted to go to war -
Chinese Immigration Act
Who: Canadian government
What: Chinese had to pay a tax
When: 1923
Where: Canada
Why: Limit Chinese immagrints -
The referendum is held to decide if Newfoundland should join Canada
Who: Newfoundlanders and some Canadians
What: Newfoundland joining Canada
When: 1948
Where: Newfoundland
Why: It was forced to join Canada due to issues -
Quiet Revolution
Who: Rene Levesque
What: Change the role of Francophones
When: 1960
Where: Quebec
Why: Nationalizing of private electricity company’s -
The White Paper on Aboriginal Rights
Who: Canadian government
What: Wanted to abolish the old treaty
When: 1969
Where: Canada
Why: Want to understand the First Nations -
The Red Paper
Who: Aboriginals
What: First Nations response to the white paper
When: 1969
Where: Canada
Why: Supports aboriginals treaty’s -
FLQ Crisis
Who: FLQ activists
What: Firs Canadian crisis were Canadians dident have freedom
When: 1970
Where: Canada
Why: The changes Quebec was making -
The Calder Case
Who: Frank Calder
What: Recent land claim in BC
When: 1973
Where: BC
Why: Aboriginals dident have and option to stay on traditional land -
Election of the Parti Quebecois
Who: Rene Lesvesque and Claude Morin
What: Parti Québécois elected
When: 1976
Where: Quebec
Why: Was credited to Claude Morin -
Bill 101 is passed into law in Quebec
Who: Supreme court of Canada
What: English language schooling in Quebec.
When: 1984
Where: Quebec
Why: Bill 101- the charter of the French language. "Children should have the right to learn that language in the province". -
The NEP (National Energy Program) is implemented
Who: Federal government.
What: wanted to gain more control over the Canadian petroleum industry.
When: 1981
Where: Canada/ Alberta
Why: Canadians federal government wanted to obtain greater control over petroleum -
Referendum 1980
Who: Parti Québécois
What:PQ's sovereignty plans with Quebec.
When:1980
Where: Quebec
Why: PQ's party wanted Quebec to associate with them. -
Canada adopts official multiculturalism
Who: Canadians and immigrants.
What: Canada adopted multiculturalism to create a country that people from other ethnic cultures can come.
When:1960s to 1988
Where: Canada
Why: Canadians wanted to create a policy where immigrants of other ethnic groups could come and not be discriminated against -
Meech Lake Accord
Who: Prime minister Brian Mulroney
What:Attempt to win Quebec's consent to the revised Canadian constitution.
When: 1987
Where: Quebec
Why: Strengthen provincial powers to declare Quebec a distinct society -
Supreme Court Determines that Turbans Can be Worn By RCMP
Who: Baltej Singh Dillon.
What: Fighting for the right to wear a turban with the RCMP uniform.
When: 1988-1990
Where: Canada
Why: Mounties uniform is traditional and should be changed -
The Oka Crisis
Who: Army/police and Mohawk protesters.
What: 78 day stand off from July to September 1990.
When: 990
Where: Montreal
Why: The construction of a golf course on land that had a Mohawk burial ground -
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
Who:Aboriginal people and Canadian government/society.
What:Historical survey to do with aboriginal and non aboriginal people in Canada.
When:1991(followed the Oka Crisis).
Where:Canada
Why:Research done to identify the relationships between Aboriginal people and Canadian society -
Charlottetown Accord
Who: Prime minister Brian Mulroney.
What: Amending Canada's constitution.
When: 1992
Where: Charlottetown
Why: The accord would've transferred many federal powers to the provinces, it was rejected -
Referendum 1995
Who: Canadian government
What: Referendum,Quebec sovereignty.
When: October 30,1995
Where: Quebec
Why: Failure of both the Meech Lake Accord and the Charolette Town Accord left doubt and about the constitutional failure of Canada -
Recognition of Quebecois nation 2006
Who: Stephen Harper
What: House of Commons passes Quebecois as a nation within a united Canada.
When: 2006
Where: House of commons.
Why: Canada should be united as one, Quebecois as a nation involved more Canadians in Canadian nationalism -
Canada apologizes for Residential Schools
Who: Prime minister Stephen Harper
What: Harper apologized for pain caused to the family of the residential school victims.
When: 2008
Where: Took place at the House of Commons.
Why: Canadian Government caused a tremendous amount of pain to many Aboriginal people -
The Publication of The TRC 94 Calls to Actionp
Who: Indigenous children effected by the government boarding schools.
What: Indigenous Children were abused in government boarding schools.
When: 2015
Where:Canada
Why: Canadian government wants to try and fix what happened in the past
