Provinces
This is the number of colonies that united to form confederation.
What is 4.
Canada's First Prime Minister
What is Sir John A. Macdonald
What kind of immigrants built the railway?
What is Chinese immigrants.
This is the date confederation was formed
What is July 1st, 1867
The government sent these people out to scout plots of land for sale in what is now known as Manitoba.
Who are surveyors?
This was the first province to join Confederation after 1867.
What is Manitoba
Canada's first French Canadian Prime Minister
Who is Sir Wilfred Laurier
Order these from least to greatest difficulty to overcome in the building of the Candadian Pacific Railway: the Canadian Shield, The Rocky Mountains, and The Praires?
What is The Prairies, The Canadian Shield and The Rocky Mountains.
Annexation means..
Annexation is the addition or incorporation of land into a county.
A temporary government.
What is a provisional government?
These two provinces were created from the United Province of Canada during the first phase of Confederation.
What are Ontario and Quebec
Sir John A. was a member of what political party?
Who are the conservatives
What are two different ways people were killed in the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the Rocky mountains?
What is by dynamite explosions and landslides.
The following is a definition of:
"A group formed when two or more people, factions, states, political parties, militaries etc. agree to work together temporarily in a partnership to achieve a common goal.
What is coalition
John A. Macdonald accepting money to boost his second election campaign in exchange for the deal to the railway contract.
What is the "Pacific Scandal"
This province made a commitment to join Canada after fearing annexation from the USA.
What is British Colombia
The man that originally opposed John Macdonald but worked together to form confederation.
George Brown
How much money did the Chinese workers make?
What is 1 dollar a day.
What province joined Confederation in 1905?
What is Alberta and Saskatchewan
This created the province of Manitoba.
What is the Manitoba Act?
This territory was not created until 1999. However, it is still officially part of Confederation.
What is Nunavut
What three main ideas made up John A. Macdonald's National Policy?
Banning American goods for Candian ones, building a railway, settling the west.
How much money was given at first for the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
What is 25 million dollars.
Define Political deadlock
The inability to make a decision because of a tie.
This Prime Minister was blamed for an economic depression from 1873 - 1878. He was also the only Prime Minister that refused to be knighted.
Who is Alexander Mackenzie