Definitions
Political Features
People
Daily Life
Canadian Diversity
100

An official count of the population including information such as gender, age, religion and ethnic origin.

What is a Census?

100
A group of land-owning males over the age of 21

Who are Eligible Voters? 

100

These people came over during the Potato Famine in their home country

Who are the Irish?

100

Usually run out of a church, this is where children were sent to learn until they had to take up house chores

What is school?

100

This population was created when French fur traders took Indigenous/First Nations wives

Who are the Metis?

200

Any person who is chosen by a higher authority to fill a position in the government.

What is Appointed?

200

One individual appointed by the Crown

Who is the Governor?

200

Many came to British North America because it had made slavery illegal in 1833

Who are the America Slaves? 

200

This place was the entertainment hub of the week

What is Church on Sunday?

200

This even brought many Europeans across the ocean into Canada in the 1800s due to poverty and food shortages

What is the Great Migration

300

Any person who is voted in by the people in order to fill a position in the government

What is Elected?

300

This person is either born into their position, or inherits it. 

Who is the Crown? 

300

These people made of the vast majority of British North America

Who are the British?

300

This appliance was used every day to heat the house and cook

What is a wood stove?

300

This network brought runaway slaves through from the United States

What was the Underground Railroad

400

A system of government in which the whole population give power to one representative to make decisions on their behalf through elections and votes. 

What is Democracy?

400

80-something men voted into office by the eligible voters of the population

Who are the Legislative Assembly?

400

Pushed to the edges of society, this population lived predominantly in Rupert's Land

Who were the Indigenous/First Nations people?

400

The people of the 1800s did NOT have this convenience in their houses (think laundry)

What is indoor plumbing?

500

A system where humans are classified as a higher role above the other according to authority.

What is a Hierarchy? 

500

9 to 13 men appointed by the Governor

Who is the Executive Council?

500

Not really a fan of the British, this population lived mainly in Canada East

Who are the French?

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