In 1866, the Colony of British Columbia and the Colony of Vancouver Island merged into a single Colony of British Columbia; it joined the Canadian Confederation in 1871. [37] In 1501 and 1502 the Corte-Real brothers explored Newfoundland (Terra Nova) and Labrador claiming these lands as part of the Portuguese Empire. Please enter recipient e-mail address(es). Norrie, Kenneth, Douglas Owram and J.C. Herbert Emery. [27] These peoples developed complex cultures dependent on the western red cedar that included wooden houses, seagoing whaling and war canoes and elaborately carved potlatch items and totem poles. [68] In 1663 the French crown took direct control of the colonies from the Company of New France. The first two series that included reenactments by actors in period dress as well as the fist hand accounts cited makes this particularly compelling. [145][146], Laurier signed a reciprocity treaty with the U.S. that would lower tariffs in both directions. [218] The British Parliament duly passed the Canada Act 1982, the Queen granting Royal Assent on March 29, 1982, 115 years to the day since Queen Victoria granted Royal Assent to the Constitution Act, 1867. From the late 15th century, French and British expeditions explored, colonized, and fought over various places within North America in what constitutes present-day Canada. [150], Support for Great Britain during the First World War caused a major political crisis over conscription, with Francophones, mainly from Quebec, rejecting national policies. So many Loyalists arrived on the shores of the St. John River that a separate colony—New Brunswick—was created in 1784;[102] followed in 1791 by the division of Quebec into the largely French-speaking Lower Canada (French Canada) along the St. Lawrence River and Gaspé Peninsula and an anglophone Loyalist Upper Canada, with its capital settled by 1796 in York (present-day Toronto).

[203] Pearson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for his work in establishing the peacekeeping operation. [235], Canada became the fourth country in the world and the first country in the Americas to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide with the enactment of the Civil Marriage Act. [142] Wilfrid Laurier who served 1896–1911 as the Seventh Prime Minister of Canada felt Canada was on the verge of becoming a world power, and declared that the 20th century would "belong to Canada"[143], The Alaska boundary dispute, simmering since the Alaska purchase of 1867, became critical when gold was discovered in the Yukon during the late 1890s, with the U.S. controlling all the possible ports of entry. The E-mail Address(es) you entered is(are) not in a valid format.

By 16,000 years ago the glacial melt allowed people to move by land south and east out of Beringia, and into Canada. [220] Canada had established complete sovereignty as an independent country, with the Queen's role as monarch of Canada separate from her role as the British monarch or the monarch of any of the other Commonwealth realms.[221]. [210], In 1965, Canada adopted the maple leaf flag, although not without considerable debate and misgivings among large number of English Canadians. (2002). The dramatic stories of Canada's beginnings unfold on a spectacular, forbidding landscape. [165], In 1921 to 1926, William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal government pursued a conservative domestic policy with the object of lowering wartime taxes and, especially, cooling wartime ethnic tensions, as well as defusing postwar labour conflicts. [54], The signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 formally ended the war. In order to navigate out of this carousel, please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. In 2004, OMNI.1 and OMNI.2 began airing multicultural versions, in Chinese, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian. [127][128][129] (According to J. McCullough, use of the phrase "Dominion of Canada ... was gradually phased out" during the "late 1940s, 50s, and early 60s" with the growth of "post-colonial Canadian nationalism". [148] The reputation Canadian troops earned, along with the success of Canadian flying aces including William George Barker and Billy Bishop, helped to give the nation a new sense of identity.
In 2001, Season One of Canada: A People's History was awarded three Gemini Awards by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television:[6], The series was also recognized by the Columbus International Film and Video Festival in 2001 with a CHRIS Award in Humanities category for Best Series as well as recognition for Best Episode and Best print press/marketing materials. Please contact your service provider for more information on how to subscribe to our content. [86] As an immediate result of this setback, France founded the powerful Fortress of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island. Canada -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1935-.
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Canada -- Conditions sociales -- 1930-1939. They try to make it very real/believable, and they do a good job. I would recommend this set to anyone who would like an overview of how Canada became the Canada we know today. [62] In 1622, the first settlers left Scotland. [10] Most population groups during the Archaic periods were still highly mobile hunter-gatherers. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. Episode 1: "When the World Began…" (15,000 B.C. [170] Many businesses closed, as corporate profits of $396 million in 1929 turned into losses of $98 million in 1933. [248], At the other pole, are those Francophone historians who see the positive benefit of enabling the preservation of language, and religion and traditional customs under British rule. This FAQ is empty. [115] The rebellion of the Patriote movement was defeated after battles across Quebec. [67] In 1642, the Sulpicians sponsored a group of settlers led by Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, who founded Ville-Marie, precursor to present-day Montreal. [233], In 1995, the government of Quebec held a second referendum on sovereignty that was rejected by a margin of 50.6% to 49.4%. [234] Environmental issues increased in importance in Canada during this period, resulting in the signing of the Kyoto Accord on climate change by Canada's Liberal government in 2002. [57] During these voyages, Champlain aided the Wendat (aka "Hurons") in their battles against the Iroquois Confederacy. [199], The foreign policy of Canada during the Cold War was closely tied to that of the United States. Among his lieutenants was a geographer named Samuel de Champlain, who promptly carried out a major exploration of the northeastern coastline of what is now the United States. In 1789 war threatened between Britain and Spain on their respective rights; the Nootka Crisis was resolved peacefully largely in favour of Britain, the much stronger naval power at the time. [122] In 1821, the North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company merged, with a combined trading territory that was extended by a licence to the North-Western Territory and the Columbia and New Caledonia fur districts, which reached the Arctic Ocean on the north and the Pacific Ocean on the west. ALL-NEW GLOBAL TV APP I wish history class was like this in grade school. WorldCat is the world's largest library catalog, helping you find library materials online.

They spoke varieties of Iroquoian languages. [3], "Gays and lesbians achieve equality; Indigenous people seek redress over past abuse; the country once again stands on the brink of breakup; Cirque du Soleil conquers the world; a way of life ends in Newfoundland; the BlackBerry gives birth to Canada's own Silicon Valley; Canada's peacekeeping role suffers a near-fatal blow; and the 9/11 attack makes a small-town in Newfoundland heroic. Stream Anytime. The history of Canada covers the period from the arrival of the Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day. On June 23, 1985, Air India Flight 182 was destroyed above the Atlantic Ocean by a bomb on board exploding; all 329 on board were killed, of whom 280 were Canadian citizens.