FRANCIS HISTORY TIMETIME
1831
Underground railroad
1834
Agust 1 Emancipation day
1867
Conferderation
Immigrants from europe
1931
Commonwealth
1947
Cold war started
1963
Lester b pearson PM brings idea of peace keeping to the UN
1980
First referndum where 59.56 percent voted against and 40.44 voted for
1982
Canadian charter of rights and freedoms signed/brought back to Canada
Pm at the time First treaudeau
1985
Multiculturalism Act, which acknowledges “the freedom of all members
of Canadian society to preserve, enhance, and share their cultural
heritage.”
1987
64 cents on the dollar
1990
Peace keepers in yugoslavia were forced to fight back agasint armed attacks
1991
11.5 percent are older than 65
Lost many manufacturing jobs
1994
General Romeo dallaire was powerless to stop the rwanda genocide
1995
Quebec referendums october 30
50.5 percent to stay apart of canada and 49.42 percent to not be
1999-2000
37 percent of canadian live in urban areas
Immigration policies are less stirct more diversity
1949
2006
1million aboriginal people
PM Harper passed a motion recognizing quebecois as a nation within canada
2008
Private Chadwick Horn, who was killed in
Afghanistan in 2008.
a 2008 poll
completed by Ipsos-Reid in partnership with the Dominion Institute,
more Canadians correctly answered questions about American history and
politics than they did about their own.
Canada itself weathered the 2008 economic
downturn fairly well. But the rest of the world did not. And
when Americans stopped buying Canadian goods, Canadian
exporting companies suffered.
2011
81 percent of candians live in urban areas
14.8 percent are older than 14.8
4.3 percent of population is aboriginal 1.4m
74 cents on the dollar
Attempted to maintain peace in afghanistan
2014
Made it more difficult to become an immigrant
2019
Bill 21 passed
2056
30 percent over 65