Significant Events Prior To... The Great Migration I Significant Events Prior To...

What was it like before the GM? Many Countries claimed areas of North America

First Nations were involved in Fur Trade

Settlement in Atlantic Maritime provinces is steady Horses traded 1730s by FN Settlement in Atlantic Maritime provinces is steady

The Fur Trade All lands draining into the Hudson’s Bay are granted to the HBC The NWC controls inland (Voyageurs, Coureurs d bois)

The Expulsion of the Acadians 1755 Treaty of Utrecht 1713 makes the Acadians in Nova Scotia permanent British subjects Île Royale (Cape Breton) and Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) remained French

Oath to the King Acadians sign original oath to be loyal to King but say that they will not fight in French-Indian wars 1754 when French-Indian wars break out, they refuse to fight August 1755, the expulsion begins, they originally flee to ile St Jean (PEI) but are chased out, some killed

Deportation of the Acadians A shameful part of our history thousands killed 10,000-18,000 displaced

Deportation of the Acadians When war ended some were allowed to return Settled in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia Many left for Louisiana (Cajuns)

Quebec Act 1774 Guy Carleton criminal law would be under British laws French Canadians retained their civil laws guaranteed religious freedom for the French Roman Catholics Helped start the American Revolution

United Empire Loyalists Move North American colonists of British, Dutch, Irish, Scottish, among other origins, who had remained loyal to the King during the American Revolution the Loyalists were expelled from the States http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1xbcrtGwao

The shameful treatment of UEL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcsrjJNaq1s ..so they came to Canada..

And here were are in 1815..