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Name 2 key documents that contain our rights and freedoms

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Magna Carta, Charter of rights and freedoms

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4 rights Canadians enjoy

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Mobility rights, Aboriginal poeple’s rights, Official language rights and minority language education rights, multiculturalism

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4 fundamental freedoms

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Conscience and religion
Thought, belief, opinon and expression
Peaceful assembly
Association

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Equality of men and women?

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Don’t tolerate barbaric cultural practices

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Examples of taking responsibility for yourself and your family

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Getting a job and working hard in keeping with one’s abilities

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Founding peoples of Canada?

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Aboriginal, French and British

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Who are the Metis?

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Mixed aboriginal and european ancestry, live in prairies

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What does inuit mean?

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The people

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What does “responsible government” mean?

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Ministers must have suport of a majority of elected representatives in order to govern

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Who was Sir Louis Hippolyte La Fontaine?

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Champion of FR language rights, first head of a responsible gov’t in 1849

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What did the Canadian Pacific Railway symbolize?

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unity

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What does Confederation mean?

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Founding of Canada

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What is the significance of the discovery of insulin by Sir Frederick Banting and CHarles Best?

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treats diabetes

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What is a constitutional monarchy?

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Head of state is the Queen who reigns in accordance with constitution (law)

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Branches of gov’t?

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Executive, Judicial, Legislative

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Difference between Queen & Prime Minister

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Prime minister discerns governing of country, Queen non-partisan role as focus of citizenship and allegiance

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Highest honour Canadians can recieve

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Victoria Cross

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18
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What do you do when you go to vote

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go to polling station on your voter information card

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Who is entitled to vote?

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Citizens at least 18 yrs old on voter list

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Are you obliged to tell other ppl how you voted?

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No

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After an election, which party forms the gov’t

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The one with the most seats in the house

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Who is your MP?

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Lloyd Longfield

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What are the 3 levels of gov’t?

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Municipal, federal, provincial

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What is the role of the courts?

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settle disputes about laws

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Are you allowed to question the police about service or conduct?
Yes
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Name 2 Canadian symbols
Canadian Crown, Flag, Maple leaf, Fleur-de-Lys, Coat of arms, Parliament buildings, beaver
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What are the Atlantic Provinces
NFL, PEI, NS, NB
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What is the capital of ON
toronto
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Who is louis riel
Formed uprising, defended metis rights and father of Manitoba
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Dr. Emily Stowe
First canadian woman to practice medicine in Cada
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Signing of the Magna Carta
1215
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Confederation
1867
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Residential schools
1800s to 1980s
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John Buchan
popular gov general of Canada (1935-40) - immigrants should retain individuality and make their contribution to national character
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When were the Acadians deported from their homeland
1755-1763
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Marjourie Turner-Bailey
from NS - descendant of black loyalists & olympian
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John Cabot
first to map Canada's east coast in 1497
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Jacque Cartier
Made 3 voyages across atlantic between 1534 and 1542 claiming the land for france
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Pierre de Monts & Samuel de Champlain
French explorers who made first European settlement onorth of Florida in 1604
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When did King Charles II grant Hudson's Bay exclusive trading rights over the Hudson Bay watershed?
1670
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When was battle of the plains of Abraham?
1759 - marked end of France's empire in America
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Brigadier James Wolfe and Marquis de Montcalm
Commanders of both armies, died at plains of abraham
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Quebec Act
1774 - religious freedom for catholics, let them hold public office, restored FR civil law while maintaining british criminal law
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Joseph Brant
Led thousands of loyalist Mohawk Indians into Canada
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Establishment of Freetown
1792 - black NovaScotians in Sierra Leone
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First representative assembly elected in NS
in 1758. Next was New Brunswick in 1785
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Constitutional act
Divided Quebec into Upper & Lower Canada. 1791
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Lieutenant-Colonel John Graves Simcoe
Upper Canada's 1st Lieutenant Governor & founder of York / Toronto
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Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Activist in movememtn to abolish slavery in the US - 1st woman publisher in Canada
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Montreal stock exchange opened
1832
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Sir Isaac Brock
Captured Detroit in war of 1812
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Charles de Salaberry
Turned back 4,000 Americans at Chateauguay, south of Montreal
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Burned the whitehouse
1814 - Major General Robert Ross
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Rebellions of 1837-38
Reformers believed movement towards democracy was too slow, but they failed
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Lord Durham
English reformer sent to report on rebellions - recommended Upper & Lower Canada be merged and given responsible gov't
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Sir Etienne-Paschal Tache & Sir George Etienne Cartier
Fathers of Confederation
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When Upper & Lower Canada were united as province of Canada
1840
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Sir Louis Hippolyte La Fontaine and Robert Baldwin
Worked towards responsible gov't. Louis champion of Fr language rights & 1st leader of responsible gov't in Canadas
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1st colony to attain full responsible gov't
NS - 1847-48
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Lord Elgin
governor of united Canada who introduced responsible gov't
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British North America Act
Confederation - 1867 (Dominion Day)
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Sir Leonard Tilley
father of confederation from NB - suggested term dominion of Canada
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Years of provinces joining
``` 1967 - ON, QC, NS, NB 1879 - Manitoba, NWT 1871 - BC 1873 - PEI 1898 - Yukon 1905 - AB, SK 1949 - NFL 1999 - Nunavut ```
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Retaking of FT Garry
1870
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2nd rebellion in SK, led to execution of Riel
1885
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Canada takes over NW region from Hudson's Bay
1869
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When was Canadian Pacific Railway completed
1885
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Economic boom
1890s - early 1900s
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Laurier
first French-Canadian PM since confederation, $5 bill
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Vimy day
April 9
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Sir Arthur Currie
Canada's greatest Solider, WWI
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Agnes Macphail
First woman MP in 1921
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Bank of Canada created
1934
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Official languages act
1969 - guarantees FR & EN services in Fed gov't
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Alexander Graham Bell
Invented the Telephone
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Joseph Armand Bombardier
Invented the smowmobile
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Sir Sandford Fleming
invented time zones
78
Matthew Evans & Henry Woodward
invented the first electric lightbulb
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Reginal Fessenden
contributed to radio invention, sent first wireless voice message in the world
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Dr. Wilder Penfield
Pioneering brain surgeon at McGill, greatest living Canadian
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Dr. John. A Hopps
Invented first pacemaker
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Mike Lazaridis & Jim Balsillie
Founded RIM
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Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best
Insulin, saved 16 million lives worldwide
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of electoral districts in Canada
308
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Current governor General
Richard Wagner
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Lieutenant Governor General
Elizabeth Dowdeswell
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Peace tower
completed in 1927 memory of 1st world war
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Lieutenant Alexander Roberts Dunn
VIctoria Cross recipient, served in British Army in Charge of light Brigade at Balaclava in the Crimean war, 1st to recieve, in 1854
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Able Seaman William Hall of Horton, NS
Parents were AM slaves, 1st Black man to be awarded victoria cross for role during siege of Lucknow during Indian Rebellion of 1857
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Corporal Filip Konowal
Victoria Cross recipient, battle of Hill 70 in 1917, first non-British Empire person to get it
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Billy Bishop
earned victoria cross for Royal Flying Corps in WWI
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Captain Paul Triquet
Earned Victoria Cross leading attack on Casa Berardi in Italy in 1943 during WWII
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Lieutenant Robert Hampton Gray
Navy pilot, killed while bombing and sinking a Japanese warship in August 1945, few days before end of WWII, last to recieve
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John A Macdonald Day
January 11
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Fete Nationale
June 24 - feast of St. John the Baptist
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Sir Wilfrid Laurier Day
Nov 20
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NAFTA
1994
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Canada's 3 industries
Service, Manufacturing, Natural Resources
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Industrial and manufacturing heartland
Central Canada
100
industries in Ontario
Service & manufacturing

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