Reasons for Confederation
This huge construction project would connect the colonies and allow easier travel and trade.
What is the railway?
This region was once called Lower Canada and is today known as this province.
What is Quebec (Canada East)?
This Maritime colony’s main industries included wood, fish, and shipbuilding.
What is Nova Scotia?
He was Canada’s first Prime Minister.
Who is Sir John A. Macdonald?
This Indigenous nation lived in the Atlantic region and traded fur with Europeans.
Who are the Mi’kmaq?
Britain wanted the colonies to join together so Canada could be more __________.
What is independent / self-sufficient?
This region was once called Upper Canada and is today known as Ontario.
What is Canada West?
This colony was bilingual and relied on fishing, shipbuilding, and wood.
What is New Brunswick?
Sir John A. Macdonald was born in this country
What is Scotland?
European settlers brought these, which harmed Indigenous populations.
What are diseases?
The colonies feared this neighbouring country might invade.
What is the United States?
This colony is the smallest province in Canada.
What is Prince Edward Island?
PEI is especially known for this important crop.
What are potatoes?
He helped build this major railway that connected Canada coast to coast.
What is the Canadian Pacific Railway?
This 1885 conflict happened because the government made treaties without including Indigenous Peoples and the Métis.
What is the North-West Resistance?
This happened when Canada East and West argued so much that no laws could be passed.
What is political deadlock?
This colony is known for the Long Range Mountains.
What is Newfoundland?
This resource was the biggest industry in Rupert’s Land.
What is the fur trade (beaver pelts)?
Sir John A. Macdonald helped unite these four original provinces in 1867.
What are Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick?
This act created a school system that took Indigenous children away from their families.
What is the Residential Schools Act (or the residential school system)?
The United States cancelled this agreement, causing trade problems for the colonies.
What is the Reciprocity Treaty?
This colony joined Canada in 1871 only if a transcontinental railway was built.
What is British Columbia?
Name two resources found in Canada West.
What are wood, textiles, grain, or machinery (any two)?
One negative impact of Macdonald’s government on Indigenous Peoples.
What are residential schools / loss of land / ignoring Indigenous rights?
Rupert’s Land was owned by this company before the government bought it.
What is the Hudson’s Bay Company?