History of Canada

Room for a Truthful Story: Critiquing Toronto 's Reconciliation Methodology as Appropriation Canada 's existence as a colonized nation in a post-colonial environment requires its citizens and its institutions to have an understanding of decolonization and reconciliation methods. As a majour city within the established nation, Toronto has employed a simple method of acknowledging Canada 's history by naming streets after people that the nation believes to be worth honouring. Yet these surface…

Treaties have long been at the centre of relations between newcomers and Indigenous peoples. During his lecture, Dr. Miller discussed the historical development of treaties in Canada and highlighted each party’s intention behind treaty-making. While Indigenous peoples saw treaties as covenants, negotiated between two nations to extend and strengthen their kinship bonds, Dr. Miller contends the Canadian government simply saw the Numbered Treaties as contracts for acquiring territory. The first…

Accord died in 1990 after it did not pass the Manitoba legislature. Near the end of the Accord’s life, Robert Malcolm Campbell wrote about the process and why it was unlikely to pass. In his editorial he explained the opposition to the Accord across Canada, how the citizens were not part of the process and were ignored by the federal government. As he predicted, the Accord did not pass. Reflecting on the failure of the Meech Lake Accord, David Taras reviewed texts on the Accord and looked at who…

Vérendrye shouldn’t be inducted into the Canadian Explorer Hall of Fame because he didn’t do that much to help make Canada. He was born on November 17, 1685, Trois-Rivières and died on December 5, 1749, Montreal. He was a soldier and then became a farmer for sixteen years. In 1731 — at the age of 43, which was old in those days — he decided to become an explorer. He explored Canada and was part of the fur trade. He had promised to discover the Western Sea but he only gone forward to Lake…

Though the war itself had no conclusive consequence, it did serve as a turning point in the history of the new republic. Also war 1812 finished and the United States developed in a more distinctly American fashion. The years of the initial republic, from the finish of the Revolutionary war in 1783 to the finish of what is sometimes called the ‘’Second…

country that is an industrial society is Canada. While Canada had been populated by earlier societies like the hunter-gatherers, they were founded as a country in 1867. According to the World Factbook, the population of Canada is currently around 34,834,841. The population growth rate is .76 percent, with the birth rate at 10.29 births per 1,000 persons. The current death rate is 8.3 deaths per thousand people. There are currently several urban areas in Canada. The major ones are Toronto…

United States. I think we can claim that Canada will fill the twentieth century." This prediction was correct. Before the twentieth century and in the early years of the nineteen hundreds Great Britain had complete control of Canada. However, during the twentieth century Canada gained most, if not all, of its independence through the Treaty of Versailles, Canada’s war efforts, like Vimy Ridge, and many other events. If it was not for the twentieth century Canada would not be the wealthy and…

Immigration has significantly added to Canadian identity and what it means to be Canadian because of the stages carved towards multiculturalism and a greater Canada. In fact one could argue that Canada was a multicultural place from the start. For instance the first people to live on the land were the Aboriginals from Asia, then the European Settlers, to Africans, and even Latin Americans. The Chinese Immigration act in 1923, the celebration of the two millionth immigrant since confederation in…

The regiment had a conspicuous history, and they also had a talented band as well as meaningful insignia. In order to enhance my understanding of the Regiment, I decided to research even further. If you don't know already, the history of the Royal 22e Regiment is quite noteworthy. Moreover, it involves public rallies, political pressure, and eventually the creation of the first ever French-speaking Canadian regiment. Here's the story. The 1st Division of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF,…

History was marked on July 1st, 1867 now known as Canada Day, when the British North American Act was passed. This act allowed for Canada to be officially established as a self-governing entity under the British Empire. This was a momentous time for Canada as we were given more control, more opportunities, and we were allowed to reach new heights. This all setup Canada to become a great country, but something at the time was still missing. We were a country, but at the same time not a…