People
Who are the Metis?
This "postage stamp province" was formed in 1870, the first after Confederation, as a result the Red River Rebellion.
What is Manitoba?
This traditional practice of the Metis demonstrated their mixed European and Indigenous heritage; the men gathered in teams led by appointed captains to go out on horseback, and women later prepared the meat and furs.
What is the buffalo hunt?
Many early settlers built this type of cheap, well-insulated, but far from waterproof house upon arrival on the prairies.
What is a sod house?
Macdonald was able to secure one more government loan for the railroad when Canada was able to quickly send out troops to end this uprising.
What is the North-West Rebellion?
This MP from Manitoba was given charge of Laurier's immigration campaign; his targeted campaign brought many from Britain, America, and Eastern Europe to the Canadian West.
Who was Clifford Sifton?
These parcels of land were set aside for First Naitons to live on; others could not hunt, fish, or settle there.
What are reserves?
This man's hanging left many Quebecers furious; they even burned Macdonald in effigy and lowered flags to half-mast.
Who was Louis Riel?
These three foods were staples for settlers to western Canada.
What are eggs, oats, cheese, bread...
Workers on the railways were known by this name; they often worked for a dollar a day under difficult conditions.l
What were navvies?
This Metis man called Louis Riel to his farm when Ontario surveyors started crossing over his land.
Who was Andre Nault?
The provisional government of the 1885 North-West Resistance formed its headquarters in this city, from which they later surrendered to the Canadian forces.
What is Batoche?
This was the location of the 1816 'battle' between local settlers and Metis leaders; a later investigation showed that the settlers fired the first shot.
What is Seven Oaks?
This Act, also called the Homestead Act, divided townships into smaller lots and homesteads for new settlers across Western Canada.
What is the Dominion Lands Act?
In 1873, it became public that Hugh Allan gifted a large sum of money to the Conservatives in what looked like a bribe for the CPR contract; Macdonald resigned over what became known as this scandal.
What was the Pacific Scandal?
This NWMP colonel did his best to rid the west of liquor smugglers and also to ensure that white settlers and Indigenous people were treated equally, including chiefs he befriended.
Who was James Macleod?
This was formed in 1873 to stop illegal liquor trafficking.
What is the North West Mounted Police?
This event brought a rush of newcomers to the Yukon region.
What is the Gold Rush?
Chinese migrants were discouraged by this tax that made it more and more expensive for them to come to Canada - that is, until the Chinese Exclusion Act blocked Chinese immigration altogether in 1923.
What is the Chinese Head Tax?
This railway engineer from the United States was brought in by CPR to help build the transcontinental railway and split the work into three sections - Northern Ontario to Manitoba, Manitoba to the Rockies, and the West Coast to the Rockies.
Who was William Cornelius Van Horne?
He was the governor of the new colony of British Columbia and Vancouver island and enforced the law on miners during the Gold Rush.
Who was James Douglas.
These two provinces were formed in 1905 to allow the collection of taxes to provide services for the increasing population.
What are Saskatchewan and Alberta?
This ship containing more than 300 Sihk migrants from India was stopped in Vancouver and after a lengthy court case, was sent back to India with all passengers on board.
What is the Komagata Maru?
What is selective immigration?
This city was rapidly growing during the Gold Rush in Canada.
What is Dawson City?