Current
Canada History
Current Canada History (1867 to today)
There are handful countries in the world who is history is as young
as Canadian. We have been blessed with many good fortune and many
opportunity that no other ancient civilized countries can offer.
...The British North American Act-Constitution Act,
1867 brought about Confederation creating "one Dominion under the name
of Canada" on July 1, 1867, with four provinces: Ontario, Quebec, Nova
Scotia, and New Brunswick.
Three years after
Confederation, Canada purchased Rupert’s Land from the Hudson’s Bay
Company, which had been granted a charter to the area by the British
government exactly two centuries earlier.
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Rupert’s Land spanned all land drained by rivers
flowing into Hudson
Bay — roughly 40 percent of present-day Canada. The selling price was
300,000 pounds sterling.
Also in 1870, Britain transferred the
North-Western Territory to Canada. Previously, the Hudson’s Bay Company
had an exclusive license to trade in this area, which stretched west to
the colony of British Columbia and north to the Arctic Circle.
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When
it was discovered in the mid-1800s that the prairies had enormous
farming potential, the British government refused to renew the
company’s license. With the Hudson’s
Bay Company out of the area,
Britain was free to turn it over to Canada.
Rubert's land
owned by the Hudson's Bay Company for 200 years
Rupert’s Land and the North-Western Territory were
combined to form the Northwest Territories.
The Manitoba Act of 1870 created the province of
Manitoba from a small part of this area.
Corn Festival-Manitoba
~Manitoba one of three Prairie Province has strong agriculture economy~
In 1871, British Columbia joined the union with
the promise of a railway to link it to the rest of the
country.
In 1873, Prince Edward Island, which had previously declined an offer
to join Confederation, became Canada’s seventh province.
Yukon, which had been a district of the Northwest
Territories since 1895, became a separate territory in 1898.
Migrants
from eastern Canada and immigrants from Europe and the United States
began to fill the prairies, which were still part of the Northwest
Territories.
Then, in 1905, the provinces of Saskatchewan and
Alberta were created, completing the map of Western Canada.
After
great debate and two referendum, the people of Newfoundland voted to
join Confederation in 1949,creating Canada’s tenth province.
On April 1, 1999, Nunavut, covering 1.9 million square kilometers of
Canada’s eastern Arctic, was created from the eastern part of the
Northwest Territories.
Detailed
Map of Canada Provinces
References:
1. Book of Canada Heritage
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada
3. http://icasualties.org/oif/
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