1. Canadian history
Pre-Confederation

2. Haudenosaunee Confederacy
AKA: Iroquois Confederacy
Common Good
Grand Council
Great Law of Peace

3. John Cabot
Discovers Canada 1497
Claims for Great Britain

4. Cultural Contact Transfer of goods Transfer of diseases
Imbalance of power
Transfer of diseases
Killed over 50%
Communication barrier
Eurocentrism

5. Samuel de champlain Quebec City
Canada’s first permanent settlement created in 1608

6. 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)

7. Henry Hudson

8. New france 100 years Fur Trade Hudsons Bay Company
Population: Men looking for work, British criminals and filles du roi

9. 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

10. Royal Proclamation of 1763
Created framework for dealing with Aboriginal Peoples

11. Quebec Act 1774 Created upper and lower Canada
Allowed French to maintain language and culture

12. 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

13. 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.

14. Charlottetown Accord Confederation John A. MacDonald New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Ontario
Quebec

15. 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?