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Western Canada received millions of immigrant settlers from 1867 to 1914, creating key industries such as agriculture, mining, and oil, and causing the Prairies to grow rapidly.
In 1864 at the Charlottetown Conference and again at the Quebec Conference, the prospect of an expansive and clearly imperialist Canada dominating the West was promoted. The desire of Franco-phobes like Brown to encircle and overwhelm Quebec with Anglo-Protestant populations was no secret.
- John Douglas Belshaw
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Treaties struck between Canada and Aboriginal peoples from 1871 (Treaty 1) to 1921 (Treaty 11), covering a territory that stretches from Ontario's eastern boundary in the North West to British Columbia, incorporating the whole of the Peace River Valley and the Mackenzie River drainage basin.
- John Douglas Belshaw
- 2016
Grade 8 History – Opening of the West. OBJECTIVE: This unit will introduce students to some of the people, events and ideas that occurred during Canada’s settlement of the west. Order of Lessons/Activities. 1 – The Red River Resistance.
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Like all major Canadian newspapers of the time, the Canadian Illustrated News (the News) observed the uprising in the Red River Settlement and its controversial Métis leader, Louis Riel, with great interest.
Prior to the 1730s, peoples in the West moved about mainly by means of an extensive webwork of river systems. Where there were gaps, they walked. Homes were tipis, substantial conical tents consisting of long poles and sheets of animal hide.
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This is a list of wars and armed conflicts in and involving Canada in chronological order, from the 11th century to the 21st century.
