The Residential School System
Who did the Canadian government work with to create residential schools?
Churches
This was signed in 1713 and transferred control of Acadia, Hudson Bay, and Newfoundland from France to Britain.
The Treaty of Utrecht
Confederation happened this year and united Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.
1867
This 1794 treaty confirmed that Indigenous nations had the right to travel freely across the border between Canada and the U.S.
The Jay Treaty
These treaties were signed in the year 1850 to allow settlers access to land for mining and settlement.
The Robinson Treaties
Overcrowded dorms and poor food led to illnesses like this one spreading quickly.
Tuberculosis
This person was a leader of the Odawa who led a resistance against British rule in 1763.
Pontiac
The Red River Resistance aimed to protect Métis rights and culture and was led by this person.
Louis Riel
The Covenant Chain was an alliance between the British and the Haudenosaunee, symbolized by these.
Wampum belts
The Manitoba Act of this year created the province of Manitoba and promised protections for Métis land and culture.
1870
Survivors of residential schools often experienced this, which affected their families and communities.
intergenerational trauma
After the war, French settlers in Canada had to adjust to life under their rule
British
One reason for Confederation was to protect Canada from the threat of this expansion.
American
This treaty in 1764 reinforced the agreements made in the Royal Proclamation of 1763.
The Treaty of Niagara
In 1880, an order in council claimed Canada’s sovereignty over Arctic lands and waters, ignoring whose governance in the region?
Inuit governance
Survivors of residential schools have shared their stories to demand justice and promote what?
Reconciliation
The British forced the Acadians out of their homes in this event, which began in 1755.
The Expulsion of the Acadians
The Canadian Pacific Railway was completed in this year and connected Canada’s Eastern and Western coasts
1885
This treaty of 1765 was one of the first agreements between Europeans and Inuit communities.
The British-Inuit Peace Treaty
This case ruled that First Nations didn’t own their land but only used it under the government’s permission.
The St. Catharines Milling Case
Who documented the history and impacts of residential schools?
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission
After the Expulsion of the Acadians, some Acadians eventually settled in Louisiana, where their descendants became known as who?
Cajuns
This organization was created in 1873 to enforce Canadian laws in the Northwest.
The North-West Mounted Police
This Proclamation granted land along the Grand River to the Haudenosaunee.
The Haldimand Proclamation
The Indian Act created this type of system of governance and treated First Nations as wards of the state.
a patriarchal system / patriarchy