Canadian History Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (162) essays
Canadian History essays:
Democracy Case Studies (Canada)
... members of parliament; they are responsible to the people. · They are replaced when the party in power is elected in or out. · Cabinet ministers may be made up of anybody in parliament, even if the person is not a member of the party in power. Negative: · Most of the time the ...
Canadian Immigration History
... neighbors, but at the same time practicing their own traditions and keeping their own cultural identity alive. Canada has developed as one of the most multicultural countries in the world. The vast amount of diversity rushed up to the apex when millions of people from different cultures immigrated ...
Influence of the American Civil War on Canadian Confederation
... the Unionists in the northern states and the Confederates in the Southern States. At the same time in British North America the colonies were discussing the idea of a confederation of the colonies. There were a multitude of factors that lead to the formation of the country of Canada in 1867. One of ...
Sir John A. Macdonald.
... of Sir John's political career included the Great Coalition, the British North America Act, the Manitoba Act, the creation of the North West Mounted Police, the National Policy, and the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Perhaps MacDonald's greatest asset was that he was a ...
English & French Relations
... a "plebiscite." He wanted voters to allow him to discuss conscription in the House of Commons . This means that it will release him of his promise he made earlier. The result of the plebiscite showed the division between Québec and the rest of Canada. Eighty percent of citizens in Quebec ...
Canada's Contribution to WWII
... the allies were victorious in defeating Hitler. Allied victory in World War II was in large part aided by Canadian involvement in the form of women contributing to the war effort, the British Commonwealth Air Training Program (or BCATP), and Canada's change in economy. World War II was a time of ...
Trudeau's Efforts at Achieving Canadian Unity (East/West, French/English)
... of the 1980's. The N.E.P. was introduced as a result of a 160% increase in the world oil price, as Canadian consumers began to panic. The N.E.P. had three main objectives: oil self-sufficiency for Canada in order to control the domestic price, redistribution of wealth towards the ...
Urbanization in Toronto (can be applied to basically any city in north america)
... commonly used in the Victorian era such as the gables and the wrought iron crestings. This shows that businessmen were willing to spend money to make the commercial building look more expensive and high class. When the British immigrants came to Canada they brought with them many traditions. One of ...
The Rise and Fall of Prohibition in Canada
... a division in Manitoba.12 Both of these chapters resulted in a close connection with temperance workers between Canada and the United States. The Dunkin Act, passed in the United Provinces of Canada (Ontario and Quebec), of 1864 permitted the residences of Canada ...
Canada in the 1920's
... the first female judge in the British empire . However in her own court she was harassed by lawyers. Men were still saying that women were not "people" under the British North America Act. Murphy soon realized that any five people could petition the Supreme court for a constitutional ruling. So in ...