Digital Timeline

  • 1500

    European Settlers

    -French
    -British
    -fur trade
    -Eastern Canada
    -Death by disease
    -First Nations
  • Period: to

    Seven Years War

    British (First nations) vs French (First nations)
  • Royal Proclamation

  • Destruction of Bison

    Went from 30 million bison to 1000 bison
  • Reserve Systems

  • Mowawk Residential School

  • Gradual Civilization Act

  • Confederation

    Canada 150!
  • Gradual Enfranchisement Act

  • Period: to

    Numbered Treaties

  • Indian Act

    (First Nations only)
  • Period: to

    CPR Railway

  • Establishes Residental School Systems “First Nations”

  • Ban Potlucks + Cultural Ceremonies/ Belongings

  • Agreement between Canadian Government and churches to run residental Schools

  • Dr. Bryce

  • Residental Schools

    Mandatory for FNchildren up to aged 16
  • Residental School for Inuit

  • Canada selectively ratifies U.N. convention

  • Indigenous people have right to vote

  • Civil Rights Movements

    Residental Schools start closing
  • 60s Scoop

    Indigenous in foster care which adopt them out to white Canadians.
  • “White Paper”

    Pierre Elliot Trudeau
  • Red Paper

  • Period: to

    Churches start apologizing for residental schools

  • Establishment of Royal commission on Indigenous people (RCAP)

  • RCAP releases report

    Last residental school closed
  • Creation of Nunavut

  • Lawsuit filed by residental school survivors

  • Settled the lawsuit

  • Truth and Reconciliation Commission

  • Prime Minister Stephen Harper “apologizes”

  • TRC releases the report- 94 Calls to action

  • Settlement to 60s scoop survivors

  • Justin Trudeau announces a “framework” for working with indigenous peoples