Canadian history Pre-Confederation
Haudenosaunee Confederacy AKA: Iroquois Confederacy Common Good Grand Council Great Law of Peace
John Cabot Discovers Canada 1497 Claims for Great Britain
Cultural Contact Transfer of goods Transfer of diseases Imbalance of power Transfer of diseases Killed over 50% Communication barrier Eurocentrism
Samuel de champlain Quebec City Canada’s first permanent settlement created in 1608
Age of Exploration Edge of the World, Road to the East, Scientific discovery Henry Hudson, Jacques Cartier Ferdinand Magellan, Francis Drake Christopher Columbus Science discoveries Age of Reason (Humanism)
Henry Hudson
New france 100 years Fur Trade Hudsons Bay Company Population: Men looking for work, British criminals and filles du roi
British and French relations 100 years war (14th century) Napoleonic wars (19th century) 7 years war Battle of Plains of Abraham 1759 Montcalm VS Wolfe British control French retaliated in American Independence war Leads to French Revolution
Royal Proclamation of 1763 Created framework for dealing with Aboriginal Peoples
Quebec Act 1774 Created upper and lower Canada Allowed French to maintain language and culture
War of 1812 American invade lower Canada British military force them to retreat Burn down White House Leads to fixed boundaries as we have today
Responsible government Mid 1800’s BNA provinces gain representation and responsible government PEI NS NB BC Upper Canada Lower Canada Responsible government refers to a government that is responsible to the people. In Canada responsible government is more commonly described as an executive or Cabinet that is dependent on the support of an elected assembly, rather than on the monarch. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/responsible-government/
Charlottetown Accord Confederation John A. MacDonald New Brunswick Nova Scotia Ontario Quebec
National identity Of all of the events that were important to Canada’s development Pre- Confederation, which one do you believe still affects Canada’s national identity most today?