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11th Grade
06/12/2012

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Shawnadithit
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Last known living member of the Beothuk people of Newfoundland.
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Chief Peguis
Definition
Saulteaux chief, signed first treaty with Lord Selkirk.
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Inuit
Definition
Indigenous nomadic people.
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Iroquois
Definition
Huron, St. Lawrence Lowlands, sedentary.
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Christopher Columbus
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This explorer got it wrong.  
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Indian Act
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A Canadian law that regulated how Aboriginal peoples were opposed to live on their reserves(what they could and could not do).

 

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Oka
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Land dispute between a group of Mohawk people in the town of Oka, Quebec.

 

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Treaty
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Agreements through which Aboriginal land was “surrendered” or purchased by the Canadian government.

 

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Beringia Theory
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10 000 years ago, a land bridge was created between Siberia and Alaska. People from Siberia migrated to Alaska and became Inuit.

 

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Canada’s origin
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Donnacona said “Kanata” to Jaques Cartier which means village. Cartier wrote down Canada assuming it was the name of the place.

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Iroquois Confederacy
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The legue of 5 Nations included Kaniekehaka (Mohawk), Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuaga and Seneca. They formed to protect one another from other tribes and Europeans.

 

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Assimilation
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The state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family.
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Métis
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Ancestry mixture of French and Aboriginal.

 

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Pemmican
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 A food prepared by Aboriginals from lean dried strips of meat, pounded into paste.

 

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Reserve
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Land given to Aboriginals from the government.
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Coastal Theory
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Coastal immigration occurred as the first wave of human to come to North America from Asia. Arrived by boat.
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Huron
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A member of an Indian tribe, living West of Lake Huron.
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Coastal Theory
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 The first people came to North America by boats along the ice fringed British Columbia coast. The first people that came to Alaska and Yukon were from Siberia.

 

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Residential Schools
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Schools maintained by the Canadian government for Indian and Inuit children from populated settlements.

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Tipi
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Cone shaped tent of animal skins used by certain Indians.
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Louis Joseph Papineau
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 Wanted to end the power of the Chateau clique, preserve the French Canadian ways and have a more democratic responsible government.

 

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Lord Selkirk
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 Earl of Selkirk, men took Fort Douglas and Fort William. He started the Red river settlement and was the leader of the Metis.

 

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Miles Macdonnell
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 Issued Pemmican Proclamation.

 

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John A. Macdonald
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 Wanted to create a united country (to create Canada), was the first prime minister of Canada.

 

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Jaques Cartier
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 Wanted to create a united country (to create Canada), was the first prime minister of Canada.

 

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Thomas Scott
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Executed by Metis provisional government.
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Acadians
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 French colonists who settled in Acadia.

 

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Louis Riel
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 Born on the Red River settlement, lead the Métis people

 

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Samuel de Champlain
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 Mapmaker founded French Capital in the fort Royal on the Bay of Fundy. 1608 sailed up the St. Lawrence and began to build a new settlement (at an abandoned Aboriginal Village) named the place Quebec.

 

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King’s Daughters
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 Is a term used to refer to the approximately 800 young French women who immigrated to New France to boost Canada`s population both by encouraging male immigrants to settle there, and by promoting marriage, family formation and the birth of children.

 

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Great Depression
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 A worldwide economic downturn in the 1930’s                                               

 

 

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Underground Railroad
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 Secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War

 

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Immigrate
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 Migrate to a new environment

 

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Canadienes
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Children of the first European wave of immigration

 

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Sir Isaac Brock
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British Army officer. He was assigned to Canada commanded his regiment US. Died 1812 good stragetis rushed his troops up Niagra River successfully repeled  American.
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British North America Act
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 (1867) legislation passed by the British parliament that formed the Constitution of the Dominion of Canada.

 

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 Militarism
Definition

Buy and making lots of weapons to prepare for potential for war.

o   Germany began to build up its weaponry

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Nationalism
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o   Pride for your culture that you really need your own country

 

o   Rise in the late 19th century and drove the desire for overseas colonies

 

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Chief Tecumseh
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Fighting alongside Issack Brock and dying at Movian Town during of War of 1812

 

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Imperialism
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Try take over more colonies to make money

 

o   Created tension between Germany, Britain, France, and Russia

 

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Vimy Ridge
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Was a key ridge which was captured by the Germans early in the war.
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Laura Secord
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Warned British troops that the US was going to attack
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Sir Arthur Currie

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 Commander-in-chief of the newly formed Canadian troops.

 

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Ypres
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First major military engagement.
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Treaty of Versailles
Definition

 Signed and the League of Nations was created after the First World War to resolve the issues that had led the world into the Great War.

 

 

 

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Spear points
Definition
Dated how long the Aboriginals leaving.
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Guy Carleton
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Governor of Quebec during American Revolution
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Gabriel Dumont
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Métis military commander during North West Resistance
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Voyageurs/Orkneyman
Definition
They were worked of the Hudson't Bay Company.
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Chateau Clique
Definition
Control lower Canada at the time of representative government
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Treaty of Paris
Definition
Signified the end of French rule in North America after the battle of Plains of Abraham
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Great Migration
Definition
They migrated from the UK in the 1815-1860 to Canada
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American Revolution
Definition
Americans wanted their independence which cause a war between loyalist and patroits
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War of 1812
Definition
Taking place at Queenston heights, a fight between the British and US, they wanted to take Britain
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Leo Clark
Definition
Receive a Victoria Cross, while providing protection he killed a number of Germans was wounded but still shot 4 more Germans and captured one during battle at Poziers in 1916. He lived on Pine Street in Winnipeg.
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Queenston Height
Definition
This is where the War of 1812 took place.
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Wilfred Laurier
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The Canadian Prime Minister involved in the Consciption Crisis.
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Colonel Garnett Wolsely
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Leading a troop expedition to the Red River Colony
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What resource replaced for as the economic engine of British North America?
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Wood/timber
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The extension of one nations authority or control over other lands by economic, political, or military means?
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Imperialism
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True or False

During the American Revolution the refugees who fled the United States to settle in Canada who we call patroit.

Definition

False

Loyalists

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Baldwin and Lafontaine are credited with helping to bring represative government to Canada.
Definition

False

Responsible government

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