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

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

3. First Nations were involved in Fur Trade

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

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

6. 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

7. 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

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

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

10. 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

11. 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

12. The shameful treatment of UEL
..so they came to Canada..

13. And here were are in