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The Vikings. The first Europeans that came to Canada was probably the Viking. Although we don't know that much about it, we did found evidence around the 20th century that they were there. We also know that the Vikings tried to colonies to land but failed. We still don't know why. ¹ The first colonies and Canadas older history. The first Europeans that succeeded to colonize the land was the Frenchmen in the late 15th century. When the Frenchmen first came to Canada they became surprised over that Indians were living there. Under the 17th century the French started to colonize the land, later on Québec was founded and people from Europe started to live there, the Indians and the Frenchmen became friends and agreed on sharing the land. The
reason why the Indians agreed was because they did a bargain with the farming and other things. The colony under that time was called the New France. Around the mid 18th century, the Great Britain's king George III decided that he wanted the colony that France had on north American, later on a war started for the colony. The France military in Québec knows that their numbers were too small, so they asked the native Indians in the areas and the agreed to help the French win the war against Great Britain. This war is now known as French and Indian War. After the war, the British people from Great Britain sailed through the sea and took over Québec. The French people kept their language and religion but was pushed to a smaller area and was forced to obey their new roles. New cities were founded and a new role about knowing English became mandatory. From there on Canada was founded in 1st July 1867 and became a constitutional monarchy and Parliamentary Democracy later on.
To start off, let’s talk about when the First Nation’s land got conquered by the Europeans, the Europeans tried
To them, the excitement and the adventure of the buffalo hunt held more appeal than farming. Hundreds of Metis were content to earn a living by hunting buffalo, making pemmican or finding employment as freight drivers. After a while Canada bought Rupertsland from Hudson Bay Company. When the Metis heard this they were alarmed. They feared their religion,their language, their lands and their old, free way of* life.
The French colonized the region of Acadia, which is now Nova Scotia, and the Acadians were the French colonists who lived in the area. However, there were also English colonists in the area and the groups didn’t get along well. The French lost Nova Scotia to the British in a war which led to the Treaty of Utrecht (signed in 1713) which formally named Acadia as a British territory (Dormon, 39). The treaty forced the Acadians to swear an oath of allegiance to the British crown which they refused because this would require them to renounce their Catholic religion for that of the Anglican church, because of this the likelihood of another war with the French was high. The Acadians refusal to swear an oath to the British caused the British to order a deportation of the Acadians who then fled with whatever they could carry.
There were many occasions in history wherein the French and English Canadians have clashed but the first major historical event to tear the relationship into pieces was the Northwest Rebellion. The French Canadians regarded the Northwest Rebellion a noble cause and Louis Riel a hero who stood up to protect the rights of the French-speaking Métis. The English saw the rebellion as a threat to Canada's sovereignty and Riel as a traitor.
The Vikings are had arrived in North America. The Vikings were in North America about 10 years (Weiner 4). They settled and made a life for themselves in North America. They had learned to adjust to the weather to survive for all those years. The Vikings were the first Europeans and Christians to come to North America (Steel 2). The Vikings explored North American waters for partners to trade with (Pringle 4). The Vikings wanted
The blood-thirsty Vikings had such a strong influence and impact on Western Europe that their impact of Viking contact spread throughout the world and lives on today. Three significant ways they affected the world was by the Vikings amazing technology skills of ship building and navigation as well as their polytheism religion.
The French pioneers arrived on the land of today’s Canada before the 17th century, in what they called New France. The English started to colonize North America in the 17th century, and it dominated the land by defeating the French after the French and Indian War, (McDougal Littell World Geography, page 156). Francophone’s population remains a minority in Northern America. The tension between the two ethnicities worsened, so the French asked for an independent nation. Canada and the Quebec province have been trying to reach a general conclusion by looking at the following three main aspects.
Acadia was discovered by French explorers. Jean Cartier was the first to formally explore the land that would become Acadia but Samuel de Champlain was the first to bring with him French settlers in 1605, making Acadia the second permanent European settlement in present-day Canada. Champlain’s group first settled along the banks of __________ River in 1604 but suffered in a hard winter, losing many of the settlers to scurvy. Champlain moved the settlement to Port Royal the following spring, and the settlement began to grow, forming alliances with the Mi’kmaq and Maliseet Aboriginal groups. The Acadians worked hard at clearing the marshlands, and this allowed them fertile ground t...
The root causes of Quebec Separatism go back almost a thousand years! This is because a large cause for Quebec Separatism is the conflict between the French and the English people. These conflicts go back to when France and England first became countries, and ever since then it seems the two countries have been at constant war with one another (Henley, 2011). This constant fighting spawns a built in belief of hatred for one another (Henley, 2011), which would make it hard for the two to live in the same country as they try to do in Canada. But out of all the wars the French and English fought, the most influencing for Quebecois and all of Canada was the sever year war taking place between 1756 and 1763 (Upper Canada History, 2011). The special thing about this war was that part of it was over the influence of the territory to be later Canada (Upper Canada histor...
As a result of the Canadian Confederation of 1867, Quebec had become a part of Canada. Over the next century, Canada had expanded to add six more provinces. However, only Quebec remained to have a French-speaking majority.
The English and the French had co-existed somewhat peacefully in America for nearly a hundred years. But by the 1750's, as both English and French settlements spread throughout the frontier, economic and religious tensions began to produce new conflicts and frictions within the populations. The French had explored and claimed an ample amount of land of the continental interior, ranging from the Great Lakes to Louisiana. To protect their land on these vast claims, they created a new line of communities, missions, trading channels, and forts. The region occupied by the French was surrounded by the four major cities of: Detroit, Montreal, New Orleans, and Quebec, which was the heart of the French rule in America.
Canada has continuously served as a home to immigrants and refugees from decade to decade harbouring people from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The first set of immigrants to settle in the country came from Britain, the United States and from other nationalities mostly including immigrants from Europe who were either desperate to escape from religious or political turmoil or were simply attracted to Canada’s economic promise. Soon after the Canadian confederation in 1867, immigrants from Irish and Chinese backgrounds who occupied most of the country were used as workers and the demand for labourers to develop the country increased rapidly as more Chinese descents were imported to build the Canadian Pacific Railway. Although, Canada opened its doors to immigrants, but the country also intended to gain human resources for work in the farms, in the forests, factories and mines but not everyone was equally welcomed in Canada.
Already before the first Europeans came to Canada, people had been living there for about 20 000 years1. These early settlers are the predecessors of the native people of Canada that are known as the Inuit. It was not before 1633 that the first Europeans, the French, came to Canada and established the first permanent European settlement there. By 1754, settlements in Canada greatly increased, causing French Canada into war with the British Colonies. This war was known as the Seven Years’ War resulting in mostly British rule in Canada. However, on the 1st of July 1867, Canada achieved its independence from Britain and became its very own country. Today Canada is the second largest country by area with an abundant amount of natural resources such as fish, hydroelectric power and wood. The ...
In New France, the lands were divided up into narrow strips called Seigneuries, which were managed by the Seigneurs who were given the land by the King. People who lived on these lands were called Habitants, who were farmers who lived on the Seigneuries and had to work to pay rent and make a living. There were many different occupations available in New France, the most common being farming, carpenters, and bakers. Many different Catholic holidays were celebrated, and they would celebrate the end of harvest as well. Singing and dancing were common well enjoyed leisure activities that New France enjoyed taking part in. For the most part women were treated as equals in New France. They helped farm land and participated in businesses, and they could even own some property. Canada is a very multicultural country, consisting of many different people from diverse races. and because of this, people celebrate a variety of different holidays. As well, almost every month there is some sort of public holiday where people get the day off to spend at home or elsewhere. It is also a democratic country, which means everyone has the right to vote. Also, men and women are treated as equals, it is normal for both men and women to do equal work in their jobs and at home. People in present day Canada buy and rent homes to live in, just like Habitants of New France rent land from a seigneur. Both Canada and
Who I am today and my story all started to form from the day I sat on a plane to the Great White North back on September 16, 2001. My family’s journey to Canada was a rough trip. We were all alone in a new world ready to start all over, with no language skills fitted for the place or a place to stay. Back then it was only; baby me at the age of two, my bigger brother David who was just turning six and my two lovable parents. However, we made it, moving to Toronto, Ontario. We all managed to find our places in the world until we got suggested to move due to legal reasons a place called Saskatchewan, they told us Saskatoon would be a good place due to it being small and friendly, so we did as we were told. Saskatoon turned out to be just as good