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Aboriginal Era
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French Regime
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Louis XIII
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Fouding of Co. of 100 Associates
Early adventurers. The Company of One Hundred Associates was established in 1627 by Cardinal Richelieu. It was a group of one hundred investors, which included many important officials of the French court as well as merchants and financiers whose purpose was to colonize and govern New France, but failed to do so. -
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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. -
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Louis XV
- after 1760 Louis XV has nothing else to do with the colony (the British have taken over by 1763)
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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 drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
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British Conquest
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Quebec Act
The Quebec Act of 1774 protected the interests of French Canadians in Quebec (church, religion, language, etc...) -
Constitutional Act #1
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 The new constitutional act that repealed the Québec Act of 1774 did not concern other Canadian colonies -
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Victoria
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Durham Report
The Report on the Affairs of British North America, commonly known as the Durham Report, is an important document in the history of Quebec, Ontario, Canada and the British Empire -
Union Act
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Responsible Government
The government of New France was headed by a governor who was responsible to the King. The Sovereign Council was both a lawmaking body and a court for criminal and civil cases which had been referred from lower courts. Although the governor was the royal representative, the day-to-day affairs of the colony were run by the intendant. The first and most famous intendant was Jean Talon. -
British North America Act
The Constitution Act, 1867, originally known as the British North America Act (BNA Act) was the law passed by the British Parliament creating the Dominion of Canada at Confederation.
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Post Confederation
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Edward VII
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George V
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Conscription Crisis
- french canadians didnt want to fight for the British Crown -They felt victimised by the british imperialism
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Winnipeg General Strike
Labour union leaders argued that many Winnipeg companies had enjoyed enormous profits on World War I contracts, but wages were not high enough, working conditions were dismal and the men and women had no voice in the shops -
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 (they are not represented by the UK) except in those areas where they chose to remain subordinate to Britain. -
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Edward VIII
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George VI
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Modern Era
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Quiet Revolution
The Quiet Revolution was a period of intense socio-political and socio-cultural change in the Canadian province of Québec, characterized by the effective secularization of society, the creation of a welfare state (état-providence), and realignment of politics into federalist and sovereignist factions and the eventual election of a pro-sovereignty provincial government in the 1976 election -
FLQ CRISIS
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Constitutional Act
The Constitution Act, 1982 was a landmark in Canadian history. It enshrined the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in the Constitution, the highest law of the land, and completed the unfinished business of Canadian independence — allowing Canadians to amend their own Constitution without requiring approval from Britain.
- to repatriate canada
