On September 8th, 1760 almost a year after the French troops were defeated on the Plains of Abraham. The British had captured Montreal. Near 18’000 men invaded Canada by three Rivers. Murray’s army and his 3’800 men went up the St Lawrence River coming from Quebec. 3’400 soldiers led by Haviland came by the Richelieu River.
Norsemen were the first settlers of Canada between the 9th and 10th century. Raids and continuous migration drove away the Scandinavian from their homeland. The country would not be discovered again till 1534 by Jacques Cartier. Cartier discovered Canada on his second voyage and found an alternative path that led to Canada. Fast forward to the transcontinental railroad era, the colonies Nova Scotia, News Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island were divided and the nation needed to be reformed.
I. Recolonization of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick A. The thirteen colonies wanted Nova Scotia to become the fourteenth colony because of their close relationships and trading. B. Following the deportation of thousands of Acadians, Governor Charles Lawrence, of Nova Scotia, sent a proclamation throughout all of British North America to settle Acadian farmlands in 1756. He promised the English settlers paid transportation and land grants of forty hectares and twenty more hectares for each additional person.
Canada was not always as large of a country as it is now. It started with just two parts, the West and the East. Have you ever wondered how it all started or who was the first prime minister of the country? Perhaps you were wondering what colonies did not want to join the confederation.
Kacie Lee 2/15/18 Tomasetti AP World P.6 ID #20 1. Dominion of Canada (522) Once Britain gave Canada independence, the British North America Act of 1867 was established. This act brought Quebec, Ontario, and many more provinces together – they were called the Dominion of Canada.
During the early transplantation, France claimed and established a newly developed settlement along the St. Lawrence River and inner continents, for this was the start of his New World Empire. Near the shore of Newfoundland, local Indians traded beaver pelts and hats in exchange for European goods. This trading society leads to French explorers searching for furs and fish as a source of wealth. For example, in 1608 an explorer named Samuel De Champlain led a voyage to Quebec to establish permanent colonies for French settlement. While population and organization in government developed throughout New France, the government improvised with military and investing money for construction of forts.
The province of Quebec had wanted to separate from Canada for a decent amount of time. The thoughts of separation came in the late 1950’s and 1960’s, but was in full effect in the late 1960’s to the 1970’s, mostly due to the creation of the Parti Quebecois, created in 1968. It had become popular due to the party’s leader being René Lévesque, who was not only popular but influential too. In Canada, their urge to separate grew larger, for there were two moments in time, where they wanted to separate. In order for the province to separate, they had to have a referendum.
So that no one will get angry. To add on, to ease tension between the long, bitter tension between the French and English speaking majority. Trudeau encourage French speaking people, to involve themselves in the federal government. So that they can bring equality to the French culture in Canada.
Roman Catholic French and the Protestant English-speaking colonists did not exactly see eye to eye. Both groups then turned to England and asked to govern their own affairs. In 1791, the British Parliament believed that by separating the two and giving them each their own elected assembly, that things would resolve themselves. Upper Canada would be home to the English-speaking majority, and Lower Canada would be the French-speaking majority. This plan had only worked for so long.
The Quebec Act recognized Religious and cultural differences. The Quebec Act recognized the rights of French-speaking Catholics to practice their religion and to continue their cultural traditions. This was vital because the French and British settlers and colonies had incredibly different religious and cultural traditions. The French-speaking population of Quebec had been impacted by the Catholic Church, whereas the British colonies in North America were mainly Protestant. The Quebec Act was created in order to avert the French-speaking Roman Catholic from being fully assimilated into British culture and to preserve their unique traditions.
Newfoundland & Labrador Canada was well shaped after WWII as well as the great depression affected the economy and life was back on track. However, Newfoundland and Labrador’s struggled with much more during those times. On April 1949, Newfoundland and Labrador joined Canada’s confederation as it was the final remnant of the British empire on western shores. This event became an important part of our history since Newfoundland had close ties to trades within the rest of the country. This impacted my family heavily since my father was originally a potato farmer in Ireland.
The colonies were not consulted with the ceding of their land to the British and New France was physically and politically forced to surrender to British rule. In 1774, the British Parliament enacted the Quebec Act which granted freedom of the practice of Catholic faith. The Quebec Act also restored the French civil code, although Quebec still has to maintain and follow the English criminal
In many countries, conflict between different groups of people is inevitable. In Canada, the divide between English-speaking and French-speaking regions has been a prominent political and cultural topic since the birth of the nation. The most well known of these conflicts goes to Quebec. The province has sprouted several movements and parties supporting the autonomy and independence of Quebec. One of those parties is the Bloc Quebecois.
Eventually the fighting stopped and the Mississauga people settled in the Omemee area. At this time the Mississauga’s were neutral in the French and British war before it concluded in 1763 where Canada became a British colony under the Queen. Much like their close cultural relatives the Algonquians, the Mississauga’s were a primitive culture with a low settled
They extended the providence of Quebec to span west of the Mississippi, north towards the Hudson Bay and all the way up to the islands at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, preventing colonial expansion. The Quebec Act also denied the colonies the right to an elected legislative assembly. The British did not realize that the Quebec Act would impact the Middle and Southern colonies too. The British wanted to make New England listen to them and stop their shenanigans and scare the other colonies into listening to parliament but, that did not work. The colonies united after the Intolerable Acts to form the Committee of Correspondence.
