NWMP
This group uses the acronym "NWMP". What does that stand for?
What is the North-West Mounted Police?
The prime targets of immigration were these regions.
What is Treaty 6 territory?
These 4 provinces were the founders of confederation.
What is Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick?
This event on June 1 1873 led to the creation of the NWMP.
This man used creative marketing tactics to promote Eastern European immigration to Western Canada.
Who is Clifford Sifton?
There were this number of treaties signed across Canada.
What is 11?
This was a common factor in provinces joining Confederation.
What is the threat of American annexation (Manifest Destiny)?
This cultural group was the main workforce of the building of the CPR through the Rockies.
Who were the Chinese?
The NWMP wore these garments. Why?
What is red coats like the British to be respected by the First Nations?
What was the Great Migration?
What is a massive influx of people immigrating from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales?
This was the main reason the government created the treaties.
What is control over natural resources and land?
This province attended the Charlottetown Conference but did not join Confederation right away.
What is PEI (Prince Edward Island)?
What is the 1870s?
Name 2 of the jobs that the NWMP were responsible for. (not police related)
What is delivering mail, fighting grass fires, and assisting new farmers, and being a judge?
What is that any head of a family or any male at least 21 years old could apply for land, known as a homestead?
Treaty 8 covers these provinces.
What are BC, AB, SK, and the NW Territories?
This man signed the Alberta Act, letting Alberta and Saskatchewan join Confederation.
Who is Wilfrid Laurier?
What year and where was the last nail hammered into the railway and the CPR was finished?
What is Craigellachie, BC in 1885?
Name 2 of the first four forts built by the NWMP.
This group of people became a minority in the West after the immigration influx.
Who are the Francophones?
These First Nations groups were part of the Treaty 7 agreement.
Who are the Kainai, the Piikani, the Siksika, the Nakoda, and the Tsuu Tina?
What is Granville, and it changed to honour George Vancouver, who surveyed most of the West Coast?
Name one group who had good opinions and one group who had bad opinions about the CPR. (from textbook)
Good: British Columbians, CPR shareholders, Ontario farmer, Manufacturers in the East, BC loggers, and prairie miners.
Bad: Residents of the prairies, prairie farmers, and the Cree.