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