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Timeline of Colonization & Canada
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1982
1. The British and French were fighting for control of North America, which they viewed as a rich source of raw materials.
2. When Canada was under the French rule in 19604, a North American fur trade monopoly was granted to Pierre Du Gua, Sieur de Mons. The fur trade became one of the main economic ventures in North America.
3. When Canada was under the British control, Great Britain began acquiring territory in what is now Canada in the 1600s. In 1867, four British colonies (Quebec, Nova Scotia, Ontario, & New Brunswick) joined together as the "Dominion of Canada" and became a self-governing state within the British Empire.
2008
Effects of Colozization of Canada
1869-1870
Timeline of Colonization & Canada
Shahd Bassam and Remas Mahdi
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1763
The Royal Proclamation
1763
Signed by King George III giving limited recognition of title to Indigenous communities and providing guidelines for negotiating treaties on a nationto-nation basis.
1869-1870
- Establishment of a National Comrnittee of Metis to Ilalt the land transfer of Rupert's Land from Hudson's Bay Company to Canada, as their rights and title were being ignored.
- Thc Metis provisional government won federal approval of thc Manitoba Act (1870), which resulted in the creation of the province of Manitoba, and recognized Nletis title to land within it, (Territory of Assiniboia) giving them 1.4 million acres to Metis children granted they extinguish their title (Bumsted).
1876
Indian Act:
Consolidation of Indian policies.
1876
Gave Department of Indian Affairs authority of intervening in many issues and make policy decisions such as determining who was "Indian", and managing
lands and resources.
1885
Northwest Rebellion
Métis and their allies lead the five- month Northwest
1885
Resistance against the federal government
in what is Saskatchewan and Alberta.
1953
The federal government forcefully moves Inuit from Inukjuak in northern Québec to Ellesmere and Cornwallis Islands.
1953
During the Cold War
Canada wanted to secure sovereignty to
the Arctic through
occupation of the Inuit (McPherson- Duncan).
1960
The Sixties Scoop
Thousands of Indigenous babies
and children are
taken from their families and placed in:
1960
boarding schools or foster homes of middle-class Euro Canadian families.
1982
Canadian Constitution Act
1982
Aboriginal and treaty rights (s.35) entrenched in the supreme law of Canada.
1996
The Royal Commission on
Aboriginal Peoples
1996
Report recommends a public inquiry into the effects of residential schools
2008
Formal Apology
Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivers the formal apology to residential school survivors and their families.