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Gold Rush
-aboriginal people present gold nuggets for trade
--Hudson's Bay Company didn't know what it was
-word spreads of gold on the Fraser River
-people flock from everywhere
-fought for gold -
Gold Rush No.2 and the Cariboo Road
--Cariboo Mountains
-found by Billy Barker $1000
-Governor Douglass decided that a wagon road was needed
-along the Fraser to Barkerville
-started to settle
-road costed $1 million more than the they could afford
-aboriginals upset -
The Charlottetown Conference
-originally discussing joint of the maritimes
- New Brunswick(7), Nova Scotia(5), and P.E.I(7)
-John A. Macdonald and George Brown and ten others from Canada West and East came to introduce the idea of all the colonies joining.
- The idea was a hit and it lead to the Quebec Conference. -
The Quebec Conference
-conference discussing confederation
-seventy-two resolutions
- central goverment needs great power
-New Brunswick sent seven representatives, there were seven from P.E.I, five from Nova scotia, and twelve from Canada East and West. -
Confederation Discussed and Delayed
-victory in Nova Scotia, Canada West/East, and New Brunswick
-Newfoundland and P.E.I refused
-effected by anti-confederationists
-representation by population was unpopular
-ties with Britain
-fear of invasion -
Anti-Confederationists
-led by Joseph Howe
-opposed confederation
-fought to the last minute
-very passionate -
The London Conference
-16 delgates from Canada
-winter of 1866-67
-drafting a confederation bill
-how will it be governed -
Models for Goverment
-American Model versus British Model
-powerful central goverment
-smaller provincial goverments
-house of commons makes and passes laws
-Quebec guaranteed 65 members
-Senate, appointed for life, 72 members, double checks laws
-24 Quebec, 24 Ontario, 24 Maritimes -
Canada is Born
-4 provinces
-prime minister John A. MacDonald
-celebrated as Canada Day
-some places flags at half mast -
Constitution Act 1867 and British North America Act
Constitution Act
-Queen Victoria signs
-creates 4 provinces
- Dominion of Canada
British North America Act
-built on the seventy t resolutions
-different political parties
-Britain approved -
Division of Powers
-Provincial Goverment versus Federal Goverment
-one of the main acts of the Constitution Act 1867
-Provincial: education, property rights, mines, forests, etc
-Federal: foreign affairs, trade, banks, taxation, etc -
What Will It's Name Be
-pulled from bible verse Psalm 72
-sea to sea and rivers to the ends of the earth
-Leanord Tilley -
North-West Territories and Manitoba
- fifth and sixth provinces -Canada bought land from the Hudson's Bay Company -formerly Rupert's Land and the Red River Settlement -300,000 pounds was paid -North-West Territories were shrunk in 1905 and 1912 -Manitoba grew in 1905 and 1912 -Manitoba was one sixteenth of it's current size
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British Columbia
-seventh province
-3 choices stay a british colony, join the U.S.A, or join confederation
-3 delegates left for Ottawa
-asked for responsible goverment. take over debts, and road to the east
-John A. MacDonald had wanted British Columbia to join and promised a railway -
P.E.I's Change of Heart
-eighth province
-six years after they turned confederation down
- they built a railway that caused many problems
-in debt
-worried of an attack
-absantee land lords were payed $800,000
-year round ferry boat and telegraph were promised -
John A. MacDonald
-Born:January 11 1815 Died: June 6 1891
-first prime minister of Canada
-came to Canada in 1820
-opened a law office in 1836
-2 children born in 1847 and 1850
-drinking habits
-member of Kingston's city council -
The Yukon
-ninth province
-formerly North West Territories land
-the Klondike gold rush brought many americans to the area
-increase in population led to the Yukon being formed -
Saskatchewan and Alberta
-tenth and eleventh provinces
-originally land in the North West Territories
-growth in populations
-farming, logging, mining, and railway
-not enough money -
Newfoundland and Labrador
-twelfth province
-changed the name to Newfoundland and Labrador
-many didn't want to join
-some did led by Joseph Smallwood
-Britain didn't want to support Newfoundland
-joining Canada would provide more money
-they were promised roads and railways -
Nunavut
-the thirteenth province
-last nation to join
-Canada took over the land
-Inuits wanted to make decisions
