Key People & Places
This French-speaking Indigenous group in Manitoba felt ignored when Canada acquired Rupert's Land in 1869.
Métis
The main law passed in 1876 that made the government responsible for all "Indians."
The Indian Act
The primary goal of residential schools, which means forcing people to become part of the dominant culture.
Assimilation
This type of claim is about past wrongs, where the government broke a promise under a treaty.
a Specific Claim
The two original provinces created by the Constitution Act of 1791.
Upper and Lower Canada
The name of the war fought between Britain and France, mostly in North America, from 1756 to 1763.
Seven Years War
The year Canada became a nation when the British North America Act was passed.
1867 (Confederation)
The two key actions the government did by forcing children into residential schools.
To remove/isolate children and to assimilate them?
This type of claim is for land where no treaty was ever signed to give up the land.
a Comprehensive Claim
The period in the 1960s where Quebec society rapidly changed, leading to a strong feeling of nationalism.
The Quiet Revolution
The name of the First Nation in Northern Alberta that settled a major land dispute over oil and gas development in 2018.
Lubicon Cree Band
This 1774 law gave French Canadians rights to their language and religion.
Quebec
The year the last federally-funded residential school closed.
1997
The promise in Treaty 6 that today is interpreted as a right to free healthcare.
a Medicine Chest
The main reason why the Rebellions of 1837 occurred in Lower Canada.
No Government Representation
The people who blockaded a road at Kanesatake during the Oka Crisis in 1990.
The Mohawk
The name of the first British constitution for North America, passed in 1763, which limited Quebec and restricted Roman Catholics.
Royal Proclamation Act
This is the term for when the government acts as a "father figure" and controls the lives and money of Indigenous people.
Paternalism
This type of group is made of citizens who work together to demand change from the government.
a Lobby Group
The two things the Quebec Act guaranteed to the French people to help keep them loyal to Britain.
Language and religious rights
The British leader who wrote the 1839 report that recommended French Canadians be assimilated into English culture.
Lord Durham
The name of the Commission that published its report and Calls to Action in 2015.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
The year that the federal government issued a formal apology to Indigenous people for the residential schools.
2008
This term describes Indigenous people having control over their own affairs and governance.
Self-Government
The reason why English politicians started demanding "Rep by Pop" (representation by population).
Canada West's population grew larger than Canada East's