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Period: 1500 to
French Monarchs
Monarchy:
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Period: 1559 to 1560
Francis II of France
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Monarchy
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Louis XIII of France
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The Founding of 100 Associates
The Company of One Hundred Associates was a French trading and colonization company chartered in 1627 to capitalize on the North American fur trade and to expand French colonies there. -
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Louis XIV
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Royal Government
Jean Talon was the first intendant of New France. Thanks to him, many colonists came to settle there. The British were the enemies of the French in Europe and in America. ... Under Louis XIV, New France was no longer a trading. -
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Louis XV
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Royal Proclamation
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line is drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
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English Monarchs
Constitutional Monarchy
Still King and Queen
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Quebec Act
The Quebec Act of 1774 (French: Acte de Québec), formally known as the British North America (Quebec) Act 1774, was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain (citation 14 Geo. III c. 83) setting procedures of governance in the Province of Quebec. -
Constitutional Act (First)
The Constitutional Act passed by the British Parliament in 1791 divided the Province of Québec into two distinct colonies: Lower Canada in the east and Upper Canada in the west. The new constitutional act that repealed the Québec Act of 1774 did not concern other Canadian colonies. -
Durham Report
Durham Report. Lord Durham, a British politician, was sent to North America in 1838 to investigate the causes of the twin rebellions the previous year in the colonies of Upper and Lower Canada.
By 1840 the Union Act was then created due to this Report.
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Union Act
Joins Upper and Lower Canada into East and West. Into one parliament -
Responsible Government
Out & QC
The government of New France was headed by a governor. Who was responsible to the King. The governor took advice from a Sovereign Council which consisted of the intendant; Jean Talon was the first. -
BNA Act
British North America Act, 1867. This legislation, passed by the British Parliament, created Canada as a new, domestically self-governing federation, consisting of the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec, on July 1, 1867. -
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Constitutional Monarchy
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The Statute of Westminster
The Statute of Westminster, of 11 December 1931, was a British law clarifying the powers of Canada's Parliament and those of the other Commonwealth Dominions. It granted these former colonies full legal freedom except in those areas where they chose to remain subordinate to Britain. -
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The Quiet Revolution
The Quiet Revolution (Révolution tranquille) was a time of rapid change experienced in Québec during the 1960s. This vivid yet paradoxical description of the period was first used by an anonymous writer in The Globe and Mail. Although Québec was a highly industrialized, urban and relatively outward-looking society in 1960, the Union Nationale party, in power since 1944. -
Constitutional Act (Second)
Constitution Act, 1982. The Constitution Act, 1982 enshrined the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in the Constitution, and completed the unfinished business of Canadian independence — allowing Canadians to amend their own Constitution without requiring approval from Britain.Jan 27, 2016