Canadian History, Becoming a Sovereign Nation (1867-1918) -Damin
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Manitoba Act | went into effect 15 July, 1870. It provided for the admission of Manitoba as Canada's fifth province. It marked, as well, the legislative resolution of the struggle between inhabitants of the Red River Colony and the federal government |
| Nellie McClung | suffragist, reformer, legislator, author |
| Rupert's Land | the territories granted by Charles II to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670 and ceded to the Canadian Government in 1870, comprising all the land watered by rivers flowing into Hudson Bay |
| North-West Rebellion | 1885, culmination of the discontent of the Metis, Indians and white settlers which had not abated since the Red River Resistance of 1869-70 |
| James Woodsworth | Methodist minister, social worker, politician. First leader of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), he was the best known of the reform-minded Social Gospel ministers and led many of them into the politics of democratic socialism |
| Metis | the offspring of an First Nations person and a white person, especially one of French ancestry. |
| NWMP | a paramilitary police force established in 1873 to maintain law and order, and to be a visible symbol of Canadian sovereignty, in the newly acquired North-West Territories |
| World War I | a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It involved all the world's great powers |
| Louis Riel | Métis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the Manitoba Resistance and North-West Resistance |
| Industrial Revolution | the changes in economic and social organization that began about 1760 in England and later in other countries, characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines |
| Battle of Passchendaele | one of the major battles of the First World War, taking place between July and November 1917. In a series of operations |
| Upper Fort Garry | also known as Red River, was a Hudson's Bay Company trading post at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in what is now downtown Winnipeg. It was established in 1822 |
| CPR | the company that built a transcontinental railway. Completed in 1871 |
| Battle of Vimy Ridge | battle fought 9-14 April 1917 during the FIRST WORLD WAR. The sense of achievement and national pride created by this success gave the Canadians a great feeling of self-confidence. The Canadian Corps was to gain recognition as an elite corps |
| Red River Colony | settlement on the Red and Assiniboine rivers in what is now Manitoba and North Dakota, founded 1812 by the earl of Selkirk |
| Cornelius Van Horne | railway official. Van Horne's drive and determination were responsible for the rapid completion of the main line between Montréal and Port Moody |
| Treaty of Versailles | one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I |
| Red River Resistance | a movement of national self-determination by the MÉTIS of the RED RIVER COLONY in what is now Manitoba, 1869-70 |
| Donald Smith | fur trader, railroad financier, diplomat |
| Thomas Scott | Captured and imprisoned several times by the Métis, he was court-martialled and executed with Louis RIEL's approval; he became an anglophone-Protestant martyr and his execution became a symbol of Métis hostility to Ontario |
| Clifford Sifton | One of the ablest politicians of his time, he is best known for his aggressive promotion of immigration to settle the Prairie West. |
| William McDougall | lawyer, politician, first lieutenant-governor of the North-West Territories |
| Wilfred Laurier | Canada's first francophone prime minister, Laurier is often considered one of the country's greatest statesmen |
| Lieutenant-Governor | combines the monarchical and the federal principle in provincial governments |
| trade union | an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions |
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