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Meech Lake Accord

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  • Brian Mulroney held a meeting in Meech Lake, Quebec, to discuss adding to Quebec to the constitution
  • his whole idea was to preserve Quebec’s unique identity and to give the other provinces more powers (shared control of immigration, and the option to pot out of national agreements).
  • Women’s groups in Canada worried that this change would override women’s rights issues in Canada
  • Aboriginal groups felt as though they should be able to receive a unique identity as well
  • Leaders such as Newfoundland and an aboriginal leader voted against the accord, arguing that it caused inequality among provinces.
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Charlottetown Accord

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  • Brain tried once again to bring Quebec into the constitution, this time trying to learn from mistakes of Meech Lake
  • the National Referendum was to approve the accord, it was accepted by Liberal, New Democrat, and Conservative parties
  • Still concerns on making Quebec a distinct society
  • Constitution was again not changed
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1995 Referendum

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  • Quebec wanted to separate
  • Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accord was failing
  • Wanted sovereignty from Canada but also an economic association with Canada
  • Jean Chretien was the PM at the time, fighting against Jacques Parizeau that wanted to separate
  • Canada won the “no” side with a 50.6 % win
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Brian Mulroney

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  • PM of Canada who tried twice to change the constitution and negotiated the Canada-U.S Trade agreement
  • was unsuccessful at changing the constitution
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Constitution Act of 1982

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  • Canada’s constitution was changed and taken from Britain’s power to Canada’s instead
  • Quebec refused to sign
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Charter of Rights and Freedoms

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  • Allowed different demographics of people to receive equal rights
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Attawapiskat

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Ipperwash Crisis

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  • During the second world war, the Ipperwash provincial park was changed into a military training camp
  • Indigenous people were promised the land back, but the government were not living up to their promises
  • The gov’t issued a public apology
  • Increased education on land rights
  • the gov’t introduced the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs
  • OPP used weapons to intimidate Aboriginals
  • OPP officers were educated on land claims
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Residential Schools

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  • Children were put into residential schools to take away the Indian culture and
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Residential Schools

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  • Children were put into residential schools to take away the Indian culture away
  • suffered mental, physical, and sexual abuse
  • PM Stephen Harper issued an apology to the Indigenous people
  • Caused depression, loss of identity, substance abuse, and broken families within the community
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission

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  • visited residential survivors to raise awareness
  • Established the center of Truth and Reconciliation in Manitoba to continue making progress
  • helped to improve missing women crisis, getting indigenous people into schools, reducing number of students in foster care, and addressing the healthcare gap
  • realized that Canada contributed to cultural genocide.
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Comprehensive Land Claim (Nunavut)

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  • took 20 years to negotiate this land deal
  • signed into law in 1923, and new territory came into effect
  • significant as it was the first time that Canada was able to offer Indigenous Canadians true self-government and separate land
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Nisa’s Agreement

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  • the first modern-day treaty which came into effect in 2000
  • authority to govern the land
  • the annual allocation of salmon and entitlements to harvest other fish
  • Received funding for education and health services
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Peacekeeping

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  • keeping two sides of conflict from fighting any more
  • Canada was known of a peackeeping nation
  • the efficiency of peacekeeping was questioned in 1990
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Peacemaking

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  • Participating on one side of an active conflict

- From WW11 to 1990 there was only one mission: Koren War

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9/11

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  • 239 flights were diverted to Canada
  • passed the Anti-Terrorism Act and Public Safety Act
  • flights sent to Newfoundland where people offered lots of support
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Afganistan War

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  • terrorist groups were trained in Afganistan
  • fought in many different areas
  • many Canadian soldiers were killed in the last few years
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Baby Boomers

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  • retiring boomers are now creating a high demand for other people to take jobs
  • changed the economy
  • longer life expectancy
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Causes of WW1

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  • Militarism: needing the best military
  • Alliances
  • Imperialism: a country taking over another country
  • Nationalism: pride for a country
  • The assassination of Archduke Franc Ferdinand
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Vimy Ridge

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  • Canadians to capture the ridge that french and British had failed to do
  • Arthur Currie led the attack and made it successful
  • troops practiced a lot
  • Arthur Currie was put in command
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Arthur Currie

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  • Arthur currie led the successful attack of Vimy ridge
  • in command of the entire army after Vimy
  • seat in the treaty of Versailles
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Sam Hughes

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  • minister of militia

- advocate for the ross rifle

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John Mccrae

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  • veteran in ww1

- wrote In Flanders Fields

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Mackenzie King

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  • PM
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Emily Murphy

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  • a first female judge in Canada

- Person’s Case

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Famous Five

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  • Five women who advocated to make women be considered persons in Canada
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Frederick Banting

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  • scientist

- created insulin

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Francis P

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  • Indigenous sniper

- Put himself in danger many times by going into enemy territory

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Conscription

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Conscription

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  • Robert Borden wanted every man to enlist in the war
  • Canada has an obligation to Britain
  • wanted to win
  • If Britain lost, Canada would suffer
  • No replacements mean other troops suffer
  • Canada is obligated to take care of itself, not Britain
  • The United States would help Canada out if there was a problem with Germany
  • We should not have to force people
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Women Getting to Vote (Wartime Election Act)

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  • 1917 women of boy relatives could vote (encourage conscription)
  • 1918 vote was extended to all women
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Halifax Explosion

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  • one ship carrying explosions
  • one carrying relief provisions
  • tsunamis, many fires in buildings, and a snowstorm
  • People went blind as a result of flying glass and debris
  • Boston sent support through Red Cross
  • homelessness
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Enemy Aliens

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  • thought they were suspicious and intolerant
  • War Measures Act: the right to ensure full safety during the war
  • people had to unfairly report to the police and carry identity cards
  • banned publications of books in an enemy language
  • discrimination
  • companies fired many and wanted a mass- internment
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Independence

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  • Canada was acknowledged for independent success in the war

- gained reputation

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Prohibition

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  • wanted to ban alcohol
  • wanted the grain to go to soldiers instead
  • private clubs and illegal selling
  • ## industries improved as fewer people missed work
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Prohibition

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  • wanted to ban alcohol
  • wanted the grain to go to soldiers instead
  • private clubs and illegal selling
  • industries improved as fewer people missed work
  • crime rate stopped
  • gov’t brought back conscription because they were losing too much tax money
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Spanish Flu

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  • the virus that affected younger people
  • came back to Canada through the trenches in Europe
  • stations, churches, schools, and theatres closed
  • led to the creation of department of health
  • quarantined
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Five cent Piece Speech

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  • PM Mackensie King would not give a penny to any govt that was not liberal
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Winnipeg General Strike

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  • veterans looking for work after the war
  • tensions were high because of a lot of immigrants
  • arrested strike leaders
  • people overturned a bus, cops came to the riot, and many people were injured
  • many people lost their jobs
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Statue of Westminister

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  • Canada was making efforts to be independent

- statue recognized that Britain was no longer in charge of its colonies, and Canada was fully independent

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Halibut Treaty

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Canada did not need Britain to co-sign agreements that Canada makes with other countries

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Causes of the Great Depression

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  • overproduction of products
  • Canada was too dependant on certain resources
  • competition decreased sales
  • Canada was too dependant on the United States
  • stock market crash
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Impact of WW1 on Canada

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  • women getting the death
  • French and English relations were damaged
  • Deaths and casualties
  • internment
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Impact of the Depression on Canada

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  • reduced immigration
  • increased deportations
  • reduced birth rates
  • new political parties formed when the existing ones did not do enough
  • introduction of unemployment insurance
  • changed the way Canadians felt about the economy ad the role of the store
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Parties Formed

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  • CCF
  • Social Credit
  • Union Nationale
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Christie Pitts Riot

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  • baseball game with jewish and Christian team
  • fight in the crowd
  • swastika blanket and swastika painted on the roof
  • a boy almost died
  • the rumor that people had died
  • many other people joined into the riot
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Causes of ww11

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  • Hitler wanted to get revenge for the treaty of Versailles as it had no benefit to Germany
  • Hitler promised jobs coming out of the depression
  • fascism
  • Appeasement (other countries did not want to start a war, so they did everything that Germany said to do)
  • the Nazi army continued to rise and to ignore the treaty
  • Hitler could go forward without the worry of the league of nations stepping in
  • Hitler invades Poland which starts the war
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Dieppe

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  • coastal town occupied by Germans
  • wanted to be a surprise
  • Soviet Union wanted their allies to relieve pressure on them by opening another front
  • test equipment and gain experience for a full scale invasion
  • keep the Germans guessing as to where the attack would be coming from
  • wanted to land on beach, take over town, and get some prisoners in one day
  • landing craft on the way exchnaged shots with the Germans and they were alerted
  • element of surprise was lost/not enough naval support
  • poor planning and not good enough intelligence
  • did take pressure off of the soviet union
  • showed the soviets that the Germans were too strong to open up another front
  • learnt lessons that were valuable to other battles (d-day)
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D-Day

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  • The allies decided to start pushing the Germans back to reclaim lost land they had lost
  • wanted to attack coastal areas of France to be able to win the Europe war
  • wanted to trick the Germans to confuse them
  • fake army camps
  • The US sent their top general to the area
  • fake radio signals
  • the German defense on the Atlantic Wall was very strong
  • Five beaches (Juno for Canada)
  • RAF bombers dropped aluminum foil to trick Germans
  • the victory of the battle led Canada to begin to take over northwestern Europe
  • opened up a third front, that assisted allies fighting on other fronts
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The liberation of the Netherlands

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  • fierce and difficult fighting
  • Canadians were welcomed as heroes
  • sent in food and other reliefs and rescued people from the Germans
  • Dutch people still thank Canada today for their braver and send flowers every year
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Women in WW2

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  • in the workforce
  • childcare became much cheaper and more accessible
  • pilots, navy, air force
  • created a new women’s division
  • women were in almost industries
  • volunteers packaging parcels for POW
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Internment of Japenese Canadians

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  • came to work on the railroad (Dangerous work)
  • people with small businesses, cars, boats were all sold, with no money given back in return
  • Japenese was charged and essentially paid for their internment
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St. Louise accident

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  • the boat that was used to save 900 Jewish people from death camps and take them to Cuba
  • denied entry
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conscription (WW2)

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  • Mackenzie King promised to not start conscription ever again
  • 1942 asked to be released from his anti-conscription pledge as he felt it was necessary
  • casualties were high and were continuing, he then sent 16,000 conscripted men to the army
  • some minimal rioting occurred
  • people acknowledge that King did the best he could to take everyone’s opinion, and still do what was right for the country
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Camp X

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  • A camp on Lake Ontario that was used to train British Secret Intelligence Agents
  • William Stephenson
  • Trained people to do undercover work, provided agents with fake costumes and passports
  • Helped to slow down German advances and help decrease the number of casualties
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Hiroshima

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  • first atomic bomb dropped by United States after the world war
  • Enola Grey dropped Little Boy
  • killed around 200,000 people as a result of radiation after five years
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The Holocaust

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  • antisemitism was strong and blame for Germany losing the war
  • Concentration Camps
  • Death Camps
  • Killing squads
  • segregation of Jewish people into the ghettos where may got sick and starved
  • used as slaves
  • gas chambers
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Nato

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  • countries coming together to support each other against communist countries
  • Canada had a very political involvement
  • played a vital role as they were the founding country of the alliance, efforts in the Afghan war, and had many troops in Germany at any given time
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Korean War

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  • North Korea which was soviet occupied, invaded South Korea
  • Canada supplied soldiers, naval destroyers, air transport, and squadron
  • UN ordered troops to be sent
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Suez Crisis

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  • Egypt tried to take over the Suez canal
  • Owned by the British and French
  • The Soviet Union offered Egypt missiles
  • The US got involved
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October Crisis

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  • FLQ terrorist group
  • captured James Cross and Pierre Laporte
  • Pierre assassinated
  • War Measures Act
  • led to arrests without trials
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Women’s Rights Movements

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  • Federal gov’t and Florence Bird
  • Royal Commission on the Status of Women
  • conferences regarding gender issues
  • ended gender discrimination, started equal pay, maternity leave for up to 25 weeks, legalized abortion under strict circumstances, allowed contraceptives, and decriminalized homosexual acts
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Immigration Point System

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  • have to receive valid amount of points to get into Canada
  • replaced racist laws
  • led to a more diverse Canada
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White Paper 1969

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  • Minister of Indian Affairs
  • take away Indian Status
  • Indigenous people to be equal to everyone else
  • take away the Indian Act and the federal gov’s obligation to treaty rights
  • the shift from cultural to economic development
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Calder Case

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  • Sued the BC government

- thought all Aboriginal people still had the right to the title of their own land

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Inuit relocation

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  • relocated up North
  • wanted to move back but did not want to argue with the gov’t
  • asserting Canadian sovereignty
  • broken promises
  • (not enough resources, could not return home after two years, could not remain in one community and were not supplied adequate resources and shelter)
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Sixties Scoop

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  • Indigenous children taken from home
  • gov’t said it was under-resourced and managed
  • gov’t should have done more to help the community instead
  • mental health and loss of identity
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Africhville

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  • a black community that was destroyed
  • not supplied with the garbage disposal, clean water, and sewage
  • dismantled support structures
  • hard to adapt to new lives
  • gov’t took away the dignity
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Lester B Pearson

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  • Nobel Peace prize

- wanting to solve the Suez Canal crisis

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Pierre Trudeau

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  • PM during the Cold war and October Crisis
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Viola Desmond

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  • black women who was not allowed to sit in the theatre
  • sat anyways
  • arrested
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Tommy Douglas

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  • creator of insulin
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Igor Gozenko

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  • leaked documents from the Soviet Union spy ring

- started the cold war

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BCAPT

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  • The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan was a system where Britain airmen could come and train in Canada from 1939-1945
  • The plan cost Canada 1.6 billion dollars
  • Canada had a large capacity to manufacture aircraft; more free land and Canadian industries
  • had easy access to the U.S for market aircraft parts

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