Social Studies Flashcards
History Tellers Confederation and ON
1949
NFLD and Labrador joined Confederation
1999
Nunavut joined Confederation
1914-1918
WW1
1939-1945
WW2
In WW1 why did Canada have to join automatically?
Because they were still part of the British Colonies
What treaty are we in?
Treaty 7
Manitoba Act ( Date )
1870 the creation of Manitoba
1873
PEI joins Confederation
1871
BC joins Confederation
1905
Alberta and Saskatchewan joined Confederation
1867
Confederation
Act of Union ( Date )
1841
Act of Union
Combination of Upper and Lower into the Province of Canada
First countries in Confederation
Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick
BNA Act
1867, Act that established Confederation
Wilfred Laurier
First French Canadian Prime Minister 1896
William Lyon Mackenzie
Liberal leader won the 1873
Clifford Sifton
Advertised for English speaking people to immigrate to the West
Prime Minister during WW1
Robert Borden
Premier during the Manitoba Schools Act
Thomas Greenway
First female judge in Alberta; she was a leading suffragist
Emily Murphy
Homestead
Settled land with the purpose of farming and eventually owning it
NWT joined Confederation
1870
Red River Rebellion (Date)
1869-1870
North West Resistance
1885
Last battle in the North West Resistance
Battle of Batoche
The CPR finished
1885
The National Policy (Date)
1878
Thomas Scott
Ontario, English speaking, British Protestant, tried to overthrow the red rivers provisional government
How many treaties were there?
11
Why the numbered treaties
To negotiate the railway
Numbered Treaties (Date)
1871
Who invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Who invented time zones and the postage stamp in 1884
Sir Sandford Flemming
Prohibition
the prevention by law of consumption and sale of alcohol
Suffrage
The right to vote
The War Times Elections Act
1917
Women’s Franchise Act
1918
The 2 part suffrage acts
The War Times Elections Act and Women’s Franchise Act
Yukon joined Confederation
1898
NW Territories joined Confederation
1870
Wartimes Election Act
1917
Women’s Franchise Act
1918
D-Day
1944
Meeting Charlottetown
Sept. 1864
Meeting Quebec City
Oct. 1864
Meeting London, England
Winter 1866 and spring 1867
1891
The first Ukraine migrated to Canada
1890s
Several thousand Russian Jewish people immigrated to Canada they built a brick factory a flour mill a cannery and several bee colonies
1895-1913
Over 100,000 Polish people came to Canada large number became farmers some went to work at the new coal industry in Drumheller
CBC -Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
1936 created to foster canadian national spirit. Has Anglophone and Francophone channels
APTN -Aboriginal Peoples Television Network
1999 the world’s first national aboriginal television network
1958
CBC completed a microwave network linking Victoria to Halifax the longest microwave network in the world
1978
CBC became the first broadcaster in the word to use a orbiting satellite for television