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The Canadian Historical Review (CHR) is a scholarly journal in Canada, [1] founded in 1920 and published by the University of Toronto Press. [2] The CHR publishes articles about the ideas, people, and events important to Canadian history, [3] as well as book reviews and detailed bibliographies of recent Canadian historical publications.
The act provides for the establishment of the province Manitoba when Rupert's Land is transferred to Canada. June–July – The 1870 New Brunswick election; July 15 – The British Privy Council's Rupert's Land and North-Western Territory Order transfers those territories to Canada, and Manitoba and the North-West Territories are established.
This is a list of years in Canada. Prehistory to 1 BC; 1st millennium; ... 1870s: 1870 - 1871 - 1872 - ... Canadian Historical Review; Journal of Canadian Studies;:Media;
Rather than remain a colony of Great Britain, the citizens of Quebec vote to join with New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Ontario to create the nation of Canada. 1867 — Quebec general election : In August, the first provincial elections are held under the British North America Act.
Vancouver Island University historian, Keith D. Smith described the pass system in his 2009 book Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance: Indigenous Communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927, as a "highly effective component of a "coercive and flexible" "matrix" of restrictive "laws, regulations, and policies" to "confine Indigenous people to ...
Historical annexationist movements inside Canada were usually inspired by dissatisfaction with Britain's colonial government of Canada. Groups of Irish immigrants took the route of armed struggle, attempting to annex the peninsula between the Detroit and Niagara Rivers to the U.S. by force in the minor and short-lived Patriot War in 1837–1838.
The Literary Review of Canada unveiled its list of the 100 most important Canadian books ever published in the January/February 2006 and March 2006 issues. The list ran in chronological order, starting with Jacques Cartier 's Bref récit et succincte narration de la navigation faite en MDXXXV et MDXXXVI , published in 1545, and ending with Jane ...
There were five important periods in the history of Canadian newspapers' responsible for the eventual development of the modern newspaper. These are the "Transplant Period" from 1750 to 1800, when printing and newspapers initially came to Canada as publications of government news and proclamations; followed by the "Partisan Period from 1800–1850," when individual printers and editors played ...