History of Canada

The leading voice for French Canada during Confederation talks.

• George Etienne-Cartier

• Responsible Government

• 'wards of the state'

• John A MacDonald

How the English Protestants viewed Louis Riel

• a traitor

• Red River

• surveyors

• Manitoba

Becomes a province in 1870, with French as an official language.

• Manitoba

• Thomas Scott

• Saskatchewan

• John A MacDonald

An event that showed English and French Canadians cooperating for the greater good of Canada

• Louis Riel

• passing Responsible Gov't

• Robert Baldwin

• Frog Lake

Cree War Chief Wandering Spirit leads a raid where 8 members of this community are killed

• passing Responsible Gov't

• Louis Riel

• Frog Lake

• Chief Big Bear

The position of First Nations people under the Indian Act of 1876

• Saskatchewan

• John A MacDonald

• 'wards of the state'

• George Etienne-Cartier

English, Protestant trouble-maker executed by the Red River Provisional Gov't

• Manitoba

• Saskatchewan

• Thomas Scott

• John A MacDonald

People sent out to divide up land so the new owners, the Canadian gov't, could sell it and build the railway.

• surveyors

• Manitoba

• Red River

• a traitor

To Francophones, this person was a hero who fought for minority rights

• Frog Lake

• Louis LaFontaine

• Louis Riel

• Chief Big Bear

affairs relating to language and culture, including education

• George Etienne-Cartier

• managed by provincial gov't

• Responsible Government

• Hanging of Louis Riel, Conscription