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Royal Proclamation
The Royal Proclamation is a document that set guidelines to European settlement of Aboriginal territories in North America. -
The Red River Resistance
The Red River Resistance resulted in the Manitoba act, passed by Canada's parliament. The act establish Manitoba as a bilingual province, with education rights for Catholics and protestant. -
Indian Act
First Nations were and are independent peoples with their own processes of government and ways of organizing their nations. -
Residential Schools
Canada's government commissioned MP Nicholas Davin to recommend how to provide First Nations with education and to assimilate them at the same time. The last residential school close in Saskatchewan the was 1996 -
Manitoba Schools Act
Manitoba entered Confederation in 1870, as a bilingual province with rights to publicly funded Catholic schools that served the Francophone community and protestant schools that served the Anglophone community's. -
Haultain Resolution and North-West Territories Ordinance number 22
The Haultain Resolution was proposed by the premier of the territory, Frederick Haultain, and passed by the territory assembly.
Before Alberta was it own province it was apart of North-West Territories. -
Francophone School Boards
Francophone parents begin to lobby for their minority language education rights under section 23 of the Charter. Francophone parents in Alberta launch a Charter challenge to establish their right to Francophone school broads. -
The Aims of The Indian Association of Alberta
- To maintain treaty rights
- To advance the social and economic welfare of Indian peoples
- To secure better educational facilities and opportunities
- To cooperate with federal, provincial and local governments for the benefit of Indians
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Metis Settlements in Alberta
Alberta's government passed the Metis Population Betterment Act in 1938, which established twelve temporary settlements. The temporary settlements did not give the Metis control of the land. When four of the settlements provide unsuitable for farming, hunting or fishing, the settlements were closed and the land went back to the government of Alberta. -
The Official Languages Act
The Official Languages Act reasserts the equality of French and English as official languages of Canada -
The Constitution Act
The Constitution Act The existing Aboriginal and Treaty rights of the Aboriginal peoples of Canada are recognized and affirmed.
