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Constitution Act 1982
contains the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and other provisions, including the rights of Indigenous peoples and the procedures for amending the Constitution of Canada. -
Meech Lake Accord
The Meech Lake Accord was a series of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada negotiated in 1987 by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and all 10 Canadian provincial premiers. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
During the night of November 9, 1989, crowds of Germans began dismantling the Berlin Wall. -
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Oka Crisis
The Oka Crisis, also known as the Kanehsatà:ke Resistance, was a land dispute between a group of Mohawk people and the town of Oka, Quebec, Canada, which began on July 11, 1990, and lasted 78 days until September 26, 1990, with two -
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Dessert Storm
The Gulf War was a 1990–1991 armed campaign waged by a 35-country military coalition in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the process of internal disintegration within the Soviet Union which resulted in the end of the country's and its federal government's existence as a sovereign state, thereby resulting in its constituent republics gaining full sovereignty on 26 December 1991 -
GST
The goods and services tax (GST; French: Taxe sur les produits et services) is a value added tax introduced in Canada on January 1, 1991, by the government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. The GST, which is administered by Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), replaced a previous hidden 13.5% manufacturers' sales tax (MST). -
Charlottetown Accord
The Charlottetown Accord was a package of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada, proposed by the Canadian federal and provincial governments in 1992. It was submitted to a public referendum on October 26 and was defeated. -
NAFTA
The North American Free Trade Agreement was an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States that created a trilateral trade bloc in North America. The agreement came into force on January 1, 1994, and superseded the 1988 Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Canada. -
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Rwandan Genocide
The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed Hutu militias. -
1995 Quebec Referendum
The 1995 Quebec referendum was the second referendum to ask voters in the predominantly French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec whether Quebec should proclaim sovereignty and become an independent country, with the condition precedent of offering a political and economic agreement to Canada -
Creation of Nunavut
On April 1, 1999 a new Northwest Territories was created when new boundaries were drawn in Canada's North. Two new territories, a new NWT and Nunavut (which means “our land” in Inuktitut), were created. This change marked the first significant change to the map of Canada since Newfoundland joined Confederation in 1949. -
Nisga’s First Nayion Treaty
The Nisga'a Final Agreemnt came into effect on May 11, 2000. It was negotiated between Canada, British Columbia and the Nisga'a Nation outside of the BC treaty process and became the first modern day comprehensive treaty in British Columbia. -
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Canada in Afghanistan
More than 40,000 Canadian Armed Forces members served in the Afghanistan theatre of operations between 2001 and 2014. -
9/11
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners scheduled to travel from the Northeastern United States to California. -
Same Sex Marriage
Same-sex marriage in Canada was progressively introduced in several provinces by court decisions beginning in 2003 before being legally recognized nationwide with the enactment of the Civil Marriage Act on July 20, 2005 -
Residential School Apology
On June 11, 2008, the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada issued an apology to former students of the residential school system. Prime Minister Stephen Harper also delivered the apology in the House of Commons, where Indigenous leaders and Survivors stood as witnesses to the speech. -
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Vancouver Olympics
The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games and also known as Vancouver 2010, were an international winter multi-sport event held from February 12 to 28, 2010 in Vancouver, -
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Canada and Syrian Refugees
The Government of Canada resettled 25,000 Syrian refugees between November 2015 and February 29, 2016. This included government-supported and privately sponsored refugees -
Tragically Hips Last Concert
August 20th, 2016 The Tragically completed their cross Canada tour but this was different as Gord Downie was battling brain cancer