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20 Cards in this Set
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Jacques Cartier |
Finds Quebec and St-Lawerence River (1534-35) |
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Samuel de Champlain |
Father of New France - Comes and stays (1608) |
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Jean Talon |
First Intendant (1665) |
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James Wolfe |
English General - Plaines of Abraham (1759) |
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Marquis de Montcalm |
French General - Paines of Abraham (1759) |
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Chief Tecumseh |
Famous native chief - found with Brock in the War of 1812 |
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Lord Durham |
Proposed the act of Union 1840 |
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Louis Riel |
Métis Rebel (1885) Manitoba - Eventually hanged |
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William Cornelius Van Horne |
Railway businessman - 1843-1915 |
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Maurice Duplessis |
Le Chef - like to keep things the way they were (1890-1959) |
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Jean Lesage |
Started the Quiet Revolution - 1944 |
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Rene Levesque |
Founder of the Parti Quebecois 1922-1987 |
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John A. MacDonald |
First Prime Minister of Canada (1815-1891) |
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William Lyon Mackenzie |
English leader of the rebellions - (1795-1861) |
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Louis-Joseph Papineau |
French leader of the rebellions (1786-1871) |
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Laura Secord |
Warned soldiers during the war of 1812 - (1775-1868) |
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Pierre Trudeau |
Liberal Prime Minister of Canada 1968-84 |
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Maurice Richard |
Famous hockey player 1921-2000 |
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Louis Cyr |
The strongest man in the world (1863-1912) |
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Therese Casgrain |
Politician, feminist (1896 – 1981) |
