Early Governance & Peace
The Fight for Rights
Building a Nation
100

This Haudenosaunee principle means that every single person in the group must agree before a decision is made.

Consensus

100

This group of five women fought the "Persons Case" to prove women were legally "persons" who could sit in the Senate

Famous Five

100

These groups were formed by workers to fight for better pay, safer conditions, and shorter workdays.

Labour Unions 

200

This oral constitution, one of the oldest in the world, brought five (later six) nations together in peace.

Great Law of Peace

200

This secret network of safe houses helped enslaved people escape to freedom in Canada.

Underground Railroad

200

This word describes the movement of people from rural farms to big, crowded cities for factory jobs.

Urbanization

300

This 1774 agreement allowed French settlers to keep their Catholic religion and French language under British rule.

Quebec Act

300

This famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad made 13 trips and never lost a single passenger.

Harriet Tubman

300

Created in 1999, the name of this Canadian territory means "Our Land" in Inuktitut.

Nunavut

400

European traders relied on the skills and land knowledge of these people to make the fur trade successful.

Indigenous Peoples

400

This $500 fee was charged to people from China to discourage them from moving to Canada after the railway was finished.

Chinese Head Tax
400

To connect British Columbia to the rest of Canada, thousands of Chinese workers were hired to build this, often facing dangerous mountain explosions for low pay.

Canadian Pacific Railway