A Viewing Guide for Canada: A People’s History
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The Great Enterprise
1850 - 1867
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Introduction
1.
Why did many Canadians fear an American invasion in the early 1860s?
I am French Canadian
2.
Who was George Etienne Cartier?
3.
What was Cartier’s goal for Lower Canada?
A Sly Fox
4.
Why did John A. MacDonald work closely with Cartier?
5.
What shared goal did Cartier and MacDonald Have?
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We Have Two Countries
6.
What goals for Upper Canada did George Brown have?
7.
What was the political situation in Canada at this time?
8.
What was “rep by pop” and why did Cartier and MacDonald oppose Brown on this?
The People of British North America
9.
What was the status of native people?
10. What was the status of women?
11. Why are people coming from Europe to Canada?
The Underground Railway
12. Why are black people fleeing the United States for Canada in the 1850s?
13. Who was Harriet Tubman?
14. What was George Brown’s response to slavery in the United States?
15. What was the response of many working people to the arrival of the black refugees?
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Hope Gate
16. What were conditions like in Ireland in the 1840s?
17. What was Grosse Île?
18. What were conditions like on the “coffin ships” which transported many poor immigrants to
Canada?
19. How did D’Arcy McGee come to settle in Montreal and start a newspaper?
20. What was McGee’s goal when he was elected to Canada’s parliament in 1857?
City of Wealth
21. Why is William Notman remembered?
22. What was Cartier promoting in the late 1850s?
A Winter of Utter Misery
23. Why did Samuel Tilley enter politics?
24. What were conditions like for workers in factories?
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25. In this era in one year, Mother Superior Jane Slocum’s Grey Nuns took in 729 orphans and
foundlings. Why were there so many?
26. How many survived?
To Have the Power
27. What did George Brown find in England?
28. What did Brown learn about England’s views of the colonies while he was in England?
29. How did his views about the relationship between the Canadian colonies and England
change?
30. What chance did MacDonald and Cartier take on Brown when he returned to Canada?
Strangers in Charlottetown
31. Why did George Brown go to Charlottetown?
32. Why did MacDonald go to Charlottetown?
33. Why did Cartier go to Charlottetown?
34. What was the response of the Maritimers to meeting with the Canadians?
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Three Weeks in Quebec
35. Who came to the October 1864 meeting in Quebec City?
36. Was England represented?
37. What was one of the attractions of a united Canada?
38. What crisis involving the US called governor Monck away?
39. What was agreed to at this conference?
Let Their Memory Be Dark
40. Why had Ottawa been named capital of the Canadas in 1858?
41. Why was Upper Canada satisfied by the Quebec Conference?
42. What was the Rouge response in Quebec?
43. What was the response of the Roman Catholic Church in Quebec?
44. Who won?
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Good Management and Means
45. What happened to Tilley when he endorsed confederation in New Brunswick?
46. Who provided financial support to Tilley so he could reverse his election defeat and gain
New Brunswick support for Confederation?
47. Why was this kept secret?
48. Tupper supported confederation in Nova Scotia. What retired politician led the opposition to
it?
49. What threat from the US persuaded even the Nova Scotians to support the idea of
Confederation?
A Great Revolution
50. Why did delegates go to London in 1866?
51. What did the British North America Act which Queen Victoria approved on March 29, 1867
do?
July 1st, 1867
52. Describe John A. MacDonald’s first Canada Day.
53. Describe George Brown’s first Canada Day.
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54. Describe the first Canada Day in communities around Canada..
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