Canadian Confederation Case Study

In 1869, the Metis rised a rebellion against the transfer of their territories from the Hudson’s Bay Company to the Dominion of Canada , and Louis Riel was their leader. After years of leadership and success , in 1884 Louis Riel was involved in another rebellion , but this was quickly crushed by the military might of the Canadian government , and Louis Riel surrendered. The Metis were defeated on May 12, 1885. Louis Riel was found guilty of treason ( which means the crime of betraying one’s country) and hanged as a traitor on November 16, 1885, Regina, Canada. The execution of Louis Riel was a huge defeat for the Metis.

Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the Canadian government developed several racist and discriminatory policies to contest the settlement of Chinese immigrants in Canada. Following the government’s reaction to Chinese immigrants, a Canadian moral panic evolved. In particular, Chinese immigrants faced extreme prejudice socially, physically, and morally. The first Canadian Prime Minister, John A. MacDonald (1867–1873, 1878–1891) had a vision for the ideal “white” European dominant Canada, and his successors continued with this Aryan vision. MacDonald’s initial discriminatory policies would be followed by and continued by Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier (1896-1911) and Prime Minister Lyon Mackenzie King’s (1921-1926, 1926-1930,

Irving views the political and social state of America to be unsatisfactory. This is proven correct in the fact that just as the character John Wheelwright did, Irving moved to Toronto, Canada. Irving often interprets the popular beliefs and views about the Reagan Administration as well and the constant death of significant people. During the 1960s to the 1980s, Marilyn Monroe dies, President Kennedy is assassinated, Bobby Kennedy is assassinated, and Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated. Another historical event that caused both John Wheelwright and John Irving to move to Canada was the dislike of the Reagan Administration.

Louis Riel's execution has had a long lasting effect on Canadian history. Louis Riel’s execution made him the martyr of the Metis people. In Central Canada the political fallout from Riel’s hanging enlivened French Canadian nationalism and propelling Honoré Mercier, who came to power in Quebec in 1886 based on the feelings aroused by Riel's hanging. Riel’s death also caused a fundamental shift in Quebec's voting trends and moving the province’s traditional support of the Conservative Party to the Liberal Party led by Sir. Wilfrid Laurier.

She also knows who is responsible for this, Canadian politicians, and she wants them to be punished. Her repeated mentioning of the RCMP, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, in relation to the internment and the implementation of restrictions (Kogawa 97- 130) reiterates the notion of the awareness that the government does not thunk of Japanese Canadians as equals. Another aspect the novel emphasises is the separation of families. The reader follows Naomi, Stephen, Uncle Sam and Obasan to the ghost town of Slocan City. They are now separated from Aunt Emily, Naomi 's father and their grandparents.

The Metis had had enough with the government and decided to bring back Louis Riel from Montana. With Riel back in Canada, the government was worried about the uprising of another rebellion. Louis Riel and the Metis provisional government created in the Red River Rebellion Actions towards the Government

He contributed to the drafting and completion of the 72 Resolutions, a set of proposals made at the Quebec Conference in 1864. Unfortunately, he lost his seat in the Assembly alongside of many supporters of Confederation that were driven out of the office in 1865 election. He returned to the Assembly during the 1866 by-election. His 1866’s campaign was very imprecise, promoting New Brunswickers to be for and against Confederation. However, once he entered the office, he became the key figure for a creation of a new nation.

Men aged 20-45 were forced to leave their families, join the war and fight for Britain. The English wanted French-Canadians to join, because they felt that Quebec had not pulled their own weight. Quebec refused to join which lead to riots in Montreal, the government needed help from the

At the Somme, the factors we are examining played out on such a huge scale that their impact was felt in both Britain and Canada. The campaign was a British disaster of such magnitude that its aftermath presented the propaganda campaign with its greatest challenge. Public enthusiasm waned as the truth about the Somme slipped through the censors. Soldiers began to have even less concern for killing and more for surviving. 1916 should have begun the process of ending the war in some semblance of the way European conflicts had historically been

The reliance gave the warriors a reason for demand, and in return, the Natives wanted the British to keep a substantial army on the Niagara Peninsula, a dangerously exposed position if the Americans gain naval control of the lake. British officer Edward Baynes explained that a withdrawal “would have lost us all our wavering friends and would have proved destructive to our Indian alliance.” British officers making decisions to keep the Native Alliance together was perhaps not the best military tactic for the war at that time. This is where conflicting war aims prevented the alliance from operating smoothly. The British were stretched to the limits at home dealing with the Napoleon War and were now being forced to use their already few resources to protect an alliance they needed in order to defend Canada had caused great tension and strain between the Native-British