Atlantic
This 1854 trade deal allowed free trade between British North America and the U.S.
What is the Reciprocity Treaty?
Wealthy landowners who rented farmland to habitants.
Who were seigneurs?
These new transport networks transformed trade and settlement in the 1850s.
What are railways?
Before becoming British Columbia, the mainland colony was called this.
What is New Caledonia?
The first meeting on union was held in this city in 1864.
What is Charlottetown (Conference)?
The shipbuilding industry thrived here, especially in Saint John and Halifax.
What is New Brunswick and Nova Scotia?
This politician–seigneur led the 1837 rebellion and owned 178,000 acres.
Who is Louis-Joseph Papineau?
This Toronto couple escaped slavery and founded the city’s first cab company.
Who are Thornton and Lucie Blackburn?
These mixed-heritage people lived at Red River, farming in summer and trading in winter
Who are the Metis?
This alliance between Macdonald, Brown, and Cartier broke Canada’s political deadlock.
What is the Great Coalition?
This man was Moncton’s first mayor and a wealthy shipbuilder turned miner.
Who is Joseph Salter?
The 1854 abolition of this old system angered French nationalists.
What is the seigneurial system?
This Protestant group dominated Toronto’s politics and clashed with Irish Catholics.
What is the Orange Order?
This deadly 1862 disease wiped out most Indigenous populations on the coast.
What is smallpox?
This idea claimed Americans had a duty to control all North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
I was Nova Scotia’s most vocal anti-Confederation critic.
Who is Joseph Howe?
I led French-Catholic interests in Confederation.
Who is George-Étienne Cartier?
Harriet Tubman helped hundreds of enslaved people reach freedom through this secret network.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This 1858 event brought 30 000 newcomers and caused violent clashes over land.
What is the Fraser River Gold Rush?
These 1866 attacks by Irish nationalists pushed Canadians to unite for defense.
What are the Fenian Raids?
I was Canada’s first Prime Minister.
Who is Sir John A. Macdonald?
This French-language university, founded in 1852, strengthened Canadien identity.
What is Laval University?
The government refused to sell land back to these farmers
Who are the Credit River Mississauga
.This governor founded Fort Victoria and signed early land agreements with the Songhees.
Who is James Douglas?
The 72 Resolutions drafted here became the basis of the 1867 British North America Act.
What is the Québec Conference?