Canadian History Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (162) essays
Canadian History essays:
The Classic 1972 Summit Series
... Soviets came out of Canada with a slight lead in the series and headed back to Moscow for the next four games with home advantage. After losing the first game in Moscow, this put Canada in a tough position to win the next 3 games to win the series. Brian McFarlane from Hockey Night in Canada ...
A summary of Canada's Involvement in World War I. Covers all major corps, and includes a copy of "In Flanders Fields" and a timeline of Canadian Involvement in WWI.
... assassination of Archduke Ferdinand did not stir Canada, and when Britain warned of the possibility of war Canada was caught off guard. With only 3,000 permanent soldiers Canada scrambled to assemble its forces. Within three weeks 20,000 soldiers were on their way to a state of the art training ...
This is an essay about people, groups, and government actions which aided Canada's minority groups from 1960-1980.
... of Essay A. The first criterion of this essay will be the efforts of particular individuals in the various minority groups. Topic sentence: Irene Murdoch , René Lévesque, and Elijah Harper all played key roles in gaining the rights and recognition that caused their minority groups with the successes ...
Sir Wilfrid Laurier - Prime Minister of Canada
... nationality groups regarding Canada's proper responsibilities to Britain in the future. On the other hand, he continued to resist pressures to tie the bonds of empire still more tightly during the years after the victory in South Africa. Seeds of ...
Why is the "Group of Seven" the most influential group of painters in Canada?
... to see and paint the Canadian scene in their own way. This change in attitude made it possible for new artists to experiment and create a national art in Canada. The Group of Seven created a new sense of national pride and self-awareness in Canada. "They succeeded in giving Canada an art that is now ...
James J. Hill
... in 1838 near Rockwood, Ontario, Canada, J. J. Hill became known as 'The Empire Builder' by the time of his death in 1916. Beginning his business career after his arrival in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1856 he became involved in several businesses, a river steamboat line based in Winnipeg, Canada ...
Race and Ethnicity: Canadians are not "colour-blind"
... group. For example, the passage of the Indian Act was one of the many forms of institutional prejudice and discrimination in Canada. The Indian Act had unreasonable rules that discriminated against the First Nations (Ponting and Kiely, 1997). As Macionis, Jansson, and Benoit describe, "The Act ...
Atomic Bomb's impact on Canada.
... Canada Line, and DEW Line. The construction of these defences required extensive pioneering in engineering and electronics. During the cold war, Canadians did all we could think of to protect ourselves from the nuclear war that might have erupted between the United Sates and the Soviet Union ...
Letter to: Prime Minister Mackenzie King.
... of us had lived in Canada all our lives and didn't even speak the Japanese language. To the Japanese we were Canadian, but to the Canadians we were Japanese. The Japanese were wrong in every way during the war, except this. In this aspect they were completely right ...
William Lyon Mackenzie King
... In 1944 Canadian troops suffered heavy losses in the invasion of France, and the army urgently needed reinforcements. King had promised Colonel James L. Ralston, the minister of defense, that troops based in Canada ...