History
From New France to Confederation and the modern country.
Chapter 3 of 5 · 17 topics
- The first peoplesWho was here first · Many ways of life · Contact with Europeans
- Explorers and the name "Canada"The Norse · John Cabot · Jacques Cartier · Where the name comes from
- New FranceThe first French settlements · Champlain and his allies · The Hudson's Bay Company
- From French to British ruleThe Great Upheaval · The Plains of Abraham · The Treaty of Paris, 1763 · The Quebec Act, 1774
- Loyalists and the first assembliesThe Loyalists · Joseph Brant and the Six Nations · The first elected assemblies · Upper and Lower Canada
- Ending slaverySimcoe's law of 1793 · Abolition and the Underground Railroad
- The War of 1812Why the war matters · Brock and Tecumseh · Laura Secord · Châteauguay and Washington
- Rebellion and responsible governmentThe rebellions of 1837-38 · Lord Durham and the Province of Canada · What responsible government means
- ConfederationThree conferences · 1 July 1867 · Why "Dominion" · Canada Day · Macdonald and Cartier
- Building the countryNew provinces and territories · Louis Riel and Red River · The North-West Rebellion, 1885 · The Mounted Police · The railway to the Pacific · The Chinese head tax · Laurier and the West · The Klondike Gold Rush
- The First World WarCanada goes to war · Vimy Ridge · Arthur Currie and the last hundred days · Conscription, 1917 · The Halifax Explosion · Remembering the war
- Women and the voteVotes for women · Who else waited
- Between the warsFrom Empire to Commonwealth · What the Statute did not do · The Great Depression
- The Second World WarCanada's own decision · Juno Beach and Italy · Freeing the Netherlands · Japanese Canadians
- Canada after 1945A founding member · Korea · Pearson and peacekeeping · Oil and a growing economy · Pensions and health care · Refugees and a new mix of people · Multiculturalism · Residential schools
- Quebec and the ConstitutionThe Quiet Revolution · Two official languages · The Quebec referendums · Bringing the Constitution home · Quebec says no
- Art, sport and scienceThe Group of Seven and Emily Carr · Terry Fox and Rick Hansen · Sports heroes · Inventors, part one · Inventors, part two