Early Canadian History

In New France they have King Louis XIV. In Canada today we have Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. In New France they follow minority rules. This means that none of the colonists can give their thoughts and opinions. In Canada today, we follow majority rules. This means that colonists can give their thoughts and opinions. New France has an absolute monarch; has a monarchy government. Canada today doesn’t; runs under a democratic government. In New France, King Louis XIV would select his representatives. We don’t have a king to select representatives today. We have Queen Elizabeth II. She doesn’t do much work. Our prime minister does. In New France, the governor general has multiple roles. In Canada, the governor general is more figure headed. Also, the King made laws in New France. The House of Commons/government creates laws in Canada today. In New France, women weren’t involved in government. In Canada today, multiple women are associated with government. Some similar facts are that both countries run on a monarchy. Also, both governors are figure

The Canadian Confederation was the process of establishing a new government within Canada during the 1860s. This was when three British colonies became the four provinces that would join under one government called the Dominion of Canada which was formed on July 1st, 1867. The provinces in the Dominion consisted of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. This event in history became important to Canadian society and was a turning point that lead to the current Canada. Even with this knowledge, the question rises: Why was Confederation so important to Canada? What lead to it? Was it truly necessary in Canadian history? In this paper, the importance of the Canadian Confederation will be discussed through its context and the events and

As time goes on, some countries become more relevant in the global sphere while others start to fade away. Canada is a country that only becomes more relevant as time goes on. Since being granted full sovereignty, Canada has had a growing role as a major world player. Much of their international growth has to do with its close ties to the United States and the United Kingdom. However, the country has also undergone huge change and refocusing on a domestic level. With influence from both Europe and the United States, Canada has a very unique system of governing. This paper will focus on a few major areas of Canada. It will look into the history of Canada, the structure of its government, its politics, and many of the major issues it faces today.

Canadian confederation was a process in which the British colonies of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick were united into one government of Canada, on July 1 1867. However Canadian confederation did not just happen like that there were causes that lead to confederation. The causes which lead to confederation are; political deadlock, American civil war, the railway, cancellation of reciprocity treaty, and Britain creating her colonies self-sufficient. So today in this essay I will be discussing about the causes of confederation.

More so, many Quebeckers were finding greater economic opportunities in the United States, which fostered concerns about the economic isolation of Quebec, which could ultimately become part of the United States and lose any form of Francophone independence: “Quebec’s economic weakness could be seen already in the flood of emigration toward the United States” (Silver 46). In this case, the underlying debate about provincial rights in the new federal government had to be addressed to ensure that Ontario did not usurp the provinces under a primarily Anglophone government. These clashing interest define how the threat of British colonialism and the economic and military aggression of the United States posed a major threat to Cartier and the Bleu Parti (Smith 43). These political negotiations defined the major efforts to unify the nation under MacDonald and Cartier’s federal plan as the two major provinces of Canada. This political culture created an opportunity to provide greater legislative and principal authority to countermand the new central government created through the Canadian

The focus of this investigation will be “To what extend did the conflict between cultures and all they contain (languages, traditions, races) fuel the formation of the Canadian Confederation?” and will analyze how the different cultures, races, languages, and traditions fueled the formation of the Canadian confederation. There are a variety of reasons why the Canadian confederation formed, but I believe the conflict between the different cultures in Canada was a very large cause in the formation of the Confederation. I will research the specific conflicts in culture that were occurring in Canada pre-Confederation. How these conflicts affected the current government and life in Canada. Why Canadian leaders saw these conflicts as a reason to

For those looking at Canada from an outside perspective they may assume that Canada had a long political fight with its British motherland to gain its patriation given their ties from colonialism. However, that was not particularly the obstacle Canadians had, provided that the Statue of Westminster gave Canada its opportunity in 1931. In fact the obstacles Canadians had at the time were other provinces failing to agree with one another on how to proceed from there on. Only in 1982 were these disagreements resolved. However, this paper is not focusing on how it was resolved, because much of that is well-known. This paper will focus on why it took Canada so long to patriate by examining failed attempts on agreeing on the domestic amending formula.

Starting with the Constitution Act of 1791, Canada was divided into two parts: Upper Canada and Lower Canada. Upper Canada was where the wealthy British, known as the Family Compact, resided. Lower Canada was where the less wealthy French resided. Although Lower Canada had its own branch of government, known as the Legislative Assembly, it had tremendously limited power. After many Canadians voiced their anger towards this circumstance, the Constitution of 1867 was created (Billingsley, 2013). The constitution combined Lower Canada and Upper Canada, and it gave the people much more rights, although it did not actually make Canada an independent country. Canada’s road to independence was, to a large extent, evolutionary and not revolutionary because it was unoriginal and because it took much too long of a time for its changes to be considered revolutionary.

Ever since Canada had become its own country in 1867, due to the confederation, there have been many movements to further build the nation as a whole to create an identity. The building of a nation is a process of a society where history, languages, cultures, traditions, and religions, come together as one to be a unified whole (Gounden, NATION – BUILDING). Many would argue that Canada’s attempts to nation building have been successful, while many would also argue that it has been unsuccessful. “Attempts at nation-building in Canada have been unsuccessful” is a valid statement and can thoroughly be argued and analyzed for the many reasons. Although Canada has made many movements to building the nation, many of the movements were successful

There were two major problem that would grow in Canada. Those problems included religious and cultural differences between the native people and the new immigrants from Britain. The biggest conflicts happened between the Roman Catholic French and the English-speaking colonists. The natives to Canada were growing angry at Great Britain. Great Britain knew that in order to keep their new colony,

Before the 1860s, confederation was not of importance. Although due to fear of the United States, problems between the divided British colonies, and belief that Canada’s mother country—Britain—was becoming less unenthusiastic to defend the British colonies, unity became of political importance. Together as a country, Canada would be stronger and obtain railway advantages that would overcome geographical boundaries

conclusion, the Canadian confederation was borne out of a series of problems and threats that had faced the larger Canadian continent. Rather than becoming a platform for development and growth it was created out of necessity. The two regions had to come together if they had any chance of fighting the imminent problems that the continent faced. Many of these problems were influenced by external forces that threatened the strength and unity of the country. The political, economic and social issues raised generated a scenario where the country had no option but to come together and work towards the development as a single unit. The war between Britain and America was at the center of these problems since they were fighting their own political

In Lower Canada, the conflict had been divided along linguistic and cultural lines. Within Durham’s report, The Act of Union, and1841 Election. The English and French battled out the ultimate power control over the new nation, where the lower Canada and the upper Canada became as one. In Durham’s report back in 1839, he came up with two recommendation: union of Upper Canada and Lower Canada, and a responsible government. “I expected to find a conflict between the government an the peoples: instead I found two warring nations within a single state; I found a struggle, not of principles…which now divides the inhabitants of lower Canada into hostile groups: French and English.” Quote from Lore Durham (1839 - Lord Durham’s Report). To solve this

If humans were to not know about the past, man-kind would quite literally be running on the spot or going downhill because they do not know whether they are improving or repeating themselves. However, the theory stating that man-kind does not repeat itself, is truly a myth. An example of repetition in Canadian history is about the refugee crises of 1956 Hungarians and 1970 Vietnamese; refugees were left waiting in their countries due to the fact that in both years, Canada did not trust them enough to bring thousands in at a time, which causes debates today because Hungarians and Vietnamese citizens are among the most successful and well-settled Canadians. Secondly, the study of how the land came to be is also a crucial part of the present.

The Canadian rebellion was a catalyst for political reforms, stemming from the 1839 Durham Report which reprimanded the British administration and called for the uniting of Upper and Lower Canada to form a single