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These people lived in Canada long before the settlers ever arrived.
Who are the Indigenous Peoples of Canada?
The Canadian government boasted about cheap and fertile wheat lands in this area of Western Canada.
What are the Prairies?
The Indigenous People of Canada were forced to abandon their homes and move to these designated areas.
What are reservations?
This nation is largely credited for beginning the settlement of Canada.
Who is the British Empire?
What is multiculturalism?
This country acts as both neighbour and the largest trading partner with Canada.
What is the United States of America?
This process resulted in the provinces of Canada coming together and Canada becoming a country on July 1st, 1867.
What is Confederation?
The official languages of Canada.
What are English and French?
These lovely animal products were frequently traded between the Indigenous people and settlers in Canada.
What are animal pelts?
This term is used to describe the advantages and benefits that are afforded to Caucasian members of society and not others.
What is white privilege?
These deals between the colonizers and Indigenous people of Canada worked largely in favour of the settlers.
What are Treaties?
This country is the only country in the world that is larger than Canada.
What is Russia?
This man was the first Prime Minister of Canada elected in 1867.
This aptly named settlement was first established by the French in Canada in 1604.
What is Acadia?
This public inquiry was established by the federal government in 2016 and seeks to explain the disproportionate level of harm to Indigenous women in Canada.
What is the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls?
These schools acted as a way for the Colonizers to assimilate Indigenous children into "traditional" colonizer way of life.
What are Residential Schools?
This province was the last to join Confederation in 1949.
What is Newfoundland?
These individuals were intended to act as the Canadian governments representatives on reservations and were given the responsibility of managing policy on reserves, enforcing the Indian Act, and managing the affairs of Indigenous People.
Who are Indian Agents?
This piece of legislation was introduced in 1876 by the Federal Government to control Indigenous affairs.
What is the Indian Act?
This term is used to describe the advantages and benefits directed toward Caucasian individuals not offered to others.
What is white privilege?
This level of government provides funding for First Nations schools in Saskatchewan.
What is the Federal Government?
Thousands of Chinese-Canadian temporary workers were responsible for building this method of transportation promised to British Columbia when they joined Confederation.
What is the Canadian Pacific Railway?
This document created in 1867 outlines the systems of government and civil and human rights for all Canadians.
What is the Constitution of Canada
What is the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
This mustachioed man carried the New Democratic Party to historic official opposition levels in the 2011 federal election.
Who is Jack Layton.