Sarah. Canadian History, A new Nation
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Prairie West | The "western interior" of Canada, is bounded roughly by Lake Superior and the Rocky Mountains, the 49th parallel of latitude and the low Arctic. |
| Rupert's Land | On May 2, 1670, Charles II of England granted to the Hudson's Bay Company a large portion of North America, named Rupert's Land in honour of Prince Rupert, the king's cousin and the company's first governor. |
| Metis | One of several historically variable terms (michif, bois brule, chicot, halfbreed, country-born, mixed blood) used in Canada and some parts of the northern US to describe people of mixed North American Indian-European descent. |
| Lois Riel | Metis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the North-West Rebellion. |
| Upper Fort Garry | Situated at the forks of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in the heart of the Red River Colony, was Hudson's Bay CO post established in 1822. Previous fur-trade posts had been located periodically in the area. |
| Red River Colony | Settlement on the Red and Assiniboine rivers in what is now Manitoba and North Dakota, founded in 1812 by the earl of Selkirk. |
| Red River Rebellion | A movement of national self-determination by the Metis of the Red River Colony in what is now Manitoba, 1869-70. The settlement was after 1836 administered by the Hudson's Bay Company and populated mainly by people of mixed European and Indian blood. |
| Thomas Scott | He was court-martialled and executed with Louis Riel's approval; he became an anglophone-Protestant martyr and his execution became a symbole of Metis hostility to Ontario. |
| William McDougall | First lieutenant-governor of the North-West Territories. |
| Lieutenant-Governor | Combines the monarchical and the federal principle in provincial governments. |
| Manitoba Act | Provided for the admission of Manitoba as Canada's fifth province. |
| North-West Rebellion | 1885, culmination of the discontent of the Metis, Indians and white settlers which had not abated since the Red River Rebellion of 1869-70. |
| 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. |
| Industrial Revolution | Begun about 1760 in England and later in other countries, characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines, as the power loom and steam engine, and by the concentrarion of industry in large establishments. |
| CPR | Canadian Pacific Railway. |
| Cornelius Van Horne | Railway official responsible for the building of the CPR railway in 1885. |
| Donald Smith | Fur trader, railroad finacier, diplomat; an enthusiastic supporter of the CPR, and his financial backing was essential to its progress. |
| Clifford Sifton | Lawyer, politician, businessman; one of the ablest politicians of his time, he is best known for his aggressive promotion of immigration to settle the Prairie West. |
| Wilfred Laurier | Lawyer, journalist, politician, prime minister of Canada (b at St-Lin, Canada E 20 Nov 1841; d at Ottawa 17 Feb 1919). As leader of the Liberal Party 1887-1919 and prime minister 1896-1911, Laurier was the dominant political figure of his era. |
| Trade Union | A labor union of craftspeople or workers in related crafts, as distinguished from general workers or a union including all workers in an industry. |
| Nellie McClung | Suffragist, reformer, legislator, author; played a leading role in the 1914 Liberal campaign agains Sir Rodmond Roblin's Conservative government, which had refused women suffrage. |
| James Woodsworth | Minister, social worker, politician; he was the best known of the reform-minded Social Gospel ministers and led many of them into the politics of democratic socialism. |
| World War I | Also known as the Great War, conflict, chiefly in Europe, among most of the great Western powers. It was the largest war the world had yet seen. |
| Battle of Passchendaele | Was one of the worst slaughters of World War I. During the summer and fall of 1917, Allied troops fought through endless rains across fields of deep mud, to capture the small town of Passchendaele in Belgium. |
| Battle of Vimy Ridge | The first time the Canadians attacked together in WWI. They achieved a magnificent victory, sweeping the Germans off the ridge. |
| Treaty of Versailles | Treatey of, 28 June 1919, the peace settlement imposed on Germany after WWI, drawn up at the Paris Peace Conferance and signed near the French capital at Versailles. |
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