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British Canada From Unit 2 British Canada from Colony to Country 18th Century Settlement After 1783 Loyalist Migration Notebook 7: Why is the Loyalist migration significant? Use ALL the criteria of historical significance and consider all the different groups involved (different types of loyalists, people already living in Canada, people to arrive in Canada in subsequent decades). This migration shaped our country. How? Criteria: unique, large scale impact, long-term consequences, demonstrating a pattern or trend After 1791 1792 York 1804 The Road to Confederation Responsible Government Refers to a government that is responsible to the people rather than to a monarch. Functionally, this means the executive branch (like Cabinet) answers to an elected parliament rather than appointed leaders. The idea comes from the British parliamentary system; the English parliament gradually grew in power since the 13th century, limiting the role of the Monarch. Protestantism Originated in Europe in the 16th century; rejected the authority of the church of Rome. United by the idea that the Bible is the ‘direct’ Word of God and all should be able to read it, that salvation comes from grace and not the sacraments, and that all can be priests in the church. Some see a direct link between Protestantism and the rise of literacy and democracy. Canadian Protestants have never been unified, though early on they would have been part of the Church of England (Anglican). Discuss: What was the new Dominion of Canada like in 1867? Consider the land, who’s in charge, and who lives there. Consider the challenges they face. When we celebrate Canada 150, or Confederation, what are we actually celebrating about Canada? Life in Red River In 1870, an American Indian Agent named Henry M. Rice visited Red River. He remarked: “It is a difficult matter to tell at all times exactly where the half breed ends and the white man or Indian begins; correspondingly difficult is it to tell where the buffalo terminates and the pemmican begins.” Red River in 1800 • According to the British Empire, this land is part of the HBC’s Rupert’s Land. • Both the HBC and the NWC have extensive trade posts on the plains. • Cree, Blackfoot and other FN competed to provision the HBC. This led to increased conflict and overhunting bison. • The Metis, as neither “Indian” or European, had moved West in the 1700s and carved out a niche for themselves on the plains as bison hunters and provisioners for the NWC. • The NWC and HBC traders survive primarily on pemmican, which is being produced at the forts in large quantities. Selkirk Settlers • The HBC sell a portion of land to Lord Selkirk to re-settle starving Scottish peasants. • Settlers begin to arrive in 1812, and survive only with the help of Saulteaux and Cree First Nations (Chief Peguis). • The settlers are still starving. The Governor of the settlement, Miles MacDonell, issues a ban on pemmican trade, prohibiting food from leaving the colony. • The Pemmican Proclamation essentially makes NWC provisioning illegal. The Metis and NWC fight for their livelihood. A series of violent encounters culminates in the incident at Seven Oaks. From the Encyclopedia Britannica Seven Oaks Massacre, (1816), destruction of the Hudson’s Bay Red River Settlement in what is now Manitoba, Canada, by agents of the rival North West Company. On June 19, 1816, a party of about 60 Metis under Cuthbert Grant, a North West Company employee, set out to run provisions for North West Company canoes past the Red River colony; they plundered some outlying posts on the Assiniboine River and then stopped at a place called Seven Oaks, near the Hudson’s Bay Company’s post at Fort Douglas. Robert Semple, the governor of the colony and governor in chief of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territories in North America, led a group of about 25 soldiers and settlers to parley with the Metis. A fight broke out in which Semple and 20 of his men were killed; Grant lost only one man. The Métis gave no quarter to their wounded opponents, and in the following days they forced the remaining settlers to leave under the threat of massacre. The destruction of the Red River colony, however, was only temporary; it was restored the following year. From The Canadian Encyclopedia Seven Oaks Incident Prior to the union of the North West Co and the Hudson's Bay Co in 1821, the endemic struggles between the 2 fur-trading rivals were capped by a violent incident 19 June 1816 at Seven Oaks, a few km from the HBC's Fort Douglas in the Red River Settlement. The so-called massacre of Seven Oaks provoked retaliation and led to a merger of the 2 companies. The colony at the vital junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, established by Thomas Douglas, fifth earl of Selkirk, was perceived by the Nor'Westers as the base from which the HBC was preparing to launch its penetration of the Athabaska country. It posed a threat, as well, to the annual brigades of the Montréal-based company, lying athwart their main communication route. In the spring of 1816, the HBC officers and men seized and destroyed the Nor'Westers' Fort Gibraltar at the forks, thus exposing the latter's canoe brigades, just as the pemmican supplies were being moved down the Assiniboine to meet the Nor'Westers returning from the annual council at Fort William. The HBC's Fort Douglas thus dominated the Red and denied passage both to the Nor'Westers and the provision boats of their Métis allies. Brandon House, a HBC post on the upper Assiniboine, was captured by the Métis on 1 June 1816 under Cuthbert GRANT, who then organized an escort to secure the pemmican supplies. Leaving the Assiniboine near Portage la Prairie, Grant and his men struck northeast across the plain to intercept the Nor'Westers on the Red. But they were, in fact, themselves intercepted by the HBC's local governor, Robert SEMPLE, who with a score of his men, had unwisely ventured out of Fort Douglas. Although the clash was not premeditated, the Métis quickly enveloped Semple's party and he and 20 of his men were killed. The Métis suffered only one casualty. In retaliation, Selkirk captured the Nor'Westers' primary base at Fort William and reoccupied Fort Douglas. Law suits and countersuits ensued. Only Selkirk's death in 1820 cleared the way for an end to the rivalry. As for the Métis, they came to see Red River as a place of settlement and for several decades were a permanent element in the colony. Red River After Confederation Read pages 200-207 in Shaping Canada. Before reading: Read headlines; scan the images, maps, or extra blocks of text. Consider: What’s this going to be about? What do I already know about this topic? During reading: Pause at the end of every page or chunk of text. Make a jot- notes summary of the key information. Write down any questions you have about the text. You MUST have at least two questions by the time you finish reading. After reading: What perspective does the textbook show? Is there another way to think about this history? “Let the Dominion Government offer three or four hundred acres of land to every Canadian volunteer who will go up next spring to Red River, and enough good fellows will be found to put Riel and his followers under the sod.” Niagara Mail, January 12, 1870 Notebook 5: We don’t just read primary sources for factual content. They help shed light on the time period in a lot of important ways. Read the four primary sources on Manitoba’s entry into Confederation and choose two to analyze as follows: • Consider who created the source and for what purpose. What does the very existence of the source tell us about the time period? • Consider the worldview or perspective of the writer. What does this source tell us about how some people thought at the time? • Consider whether the information is corroborated by other sources you’ve read. How does it fit with the textbook account? /5 for each source studied The Railway and the Nation Industrialization, Protectionism, Racism, Empire Imperialism Advocating empire; deliberately extending a country’s power through colonization, military force, or other means. Requires a strong central power (state or monarch) that justifies its reach upon more than just financial grounds; usually requires a strong national identity. The Age of Imperialism refers to European imperialism from around 1700 to the mid 1900s. Industrialization The gradual transformation of economic and social activity from an agrarian society to an industrial one. Wealth is produced through manufacturing, not simply through extracting natural resources (agricultural or otherwise). More capital (machinery, factories, etc.) is required to produce profit. A large proportion of the population become wage earners rather than farmers or craftspeople; urbanization and the growth of cities accompanies this transformation. Protectionism Government policies that shield domestic production from foreign competition through tariffs (taxes on imports), quotas (a limit to how much of a particular product can be produced), trade restrictions, etc. The aim is to promote industry within the nation. Structural Racism When a society and its institutions (political, economic, cultural) routinely exclude people belonging to minority groups. In North American history (and perhaps in much of the world), this is synonymous with white supremacy, a system that ensures the power and privilege of whites by exploiting people of colour. Racism is not primarily about individual prejudice; it’s about prejudice and power. Settling the West The Dominion Lands Act of 1872 encouraged settlement across the West by granting a quarter section (160 acres) of land to each adult settler (first defined as 21, then dropped to 18).
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