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3 founding people of Canada
Aboriginal, French and British
1763
Territorial rights guaranteed through Royal Proclamation by King George III
2008
Canada apologizes to the former Aboriginal students
3 distinct groups of Aboriginal peoples
Indian
Inuit
Metis
When was the term First Nations began to be used
1970s
4 Freedoms that Canadians enjoy
Freedom of conscience and religion, speech, peaceful assembly, and association
What document is known as the Great Charter of Freedoms
Magna Carta signed in England in 1215
Habeas corpus
the right to challenge unlawful detention by the state
When was the constitution of Canada changed
1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms
4 rights that Canadian enjoy
Mobility, Aboriginal, Official Language and Multiculturalism
Inuit means
people
Where does Aboriginal people live
600 communities on reserve land and other half in urban centres
What does language does Inuit speak
Inuktitut
Where does Inuit live
across the Arctic
Metis
mixed Aboriginal and European ancestry
Where does majority of Metis live
in the Prairie provinces
Popular Governor General of Canada in 1935-40
John Buchan
How many Anglophones in Canada
18 M
Official bilingual province in Canada
New Brunswick
Who are the Acadians
descendants of French colonists who settled in Maritime provinces in 1604
Great Upheaval
more than 2/3rds of Acadians were deported during war between Britain and France
When did they House of Commons recognized QC is a nation within Canada
2006
How old is heritage of Anglo Quebecers
250 years
Canada is referred to as
land of immigrants
Great majority of Canadians identify as
Christians
Canadas population
About 36 M
Why did the Europeans call the natives Indians
They thought they had reached the East Indies
When did the European exploration began
1497
Who drew the first map of Canadas East Coast
John Cabot
When did the name Canada begin to appear on maps
By 1550s
Iroquoian word Kanata means
village
Who did Jacques Cartier claim land for across the Atlantic
King Francis I
Who established the first European settlement in 1604 in Maine
Pierre de Monts and Samuel de Champlain
Who and when built a fortress in QC city
Champlain 1608
When did the French and the Iroquois made peace
1701
Jean Talon, Bishop Laval and Count Frontenac
Leaders who built a French empire in North America that reached from Hudson Bay to Gulf of Mexico
1690
Count Frontenac refused to surrender QC to the English
Who is Sir Guy Carleton (Lord Dorchester)
Governor of QC who defended the rights of the Canadiens during American invasion of QC in 1775
Who supervised the Loyalists migration to Nova Scotia and Quebec in 1782-83
Lord Dorchester
Who and when did the Hudsons Bay Company granted exclusive trading rights
1670 King Charle II
When did the France empire ended in America
1759
Who passed the Quebec Act in 1774
British Parliament
1776
13 British colonies to the south of QC declared independence and formed the US
Where and when was the first representative assembly
Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1758
Which act divided the Province of QC into Upper Canada (Ontario)
The Constitutional Act 1791
When was the first elected Assembly of Lower Canada
Quebec City in 1793
Who is Lieutenant Colonel John Graves Simcoe
First Lieutenant Governor and founder city of Toronto
When was slavery abolished throughout the Empire
1833
The North Star
Slaves escaped from US via Canadian Underground Railroad, a Christian anti-slavery network
When did the Montreal Stock Exchange open
1832
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
an activist in the movement to abolish slavery in the USA; first woman publisher in Canada
When did US try to launch invasion in Canada
June 1812
When did America burned down Parliament Building in York
1812