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Year Date Event Ref. to 14,000 BCE At some unknown time prior to this date, Paleo-Indians moved across the Beringia land bridge from eastern Siberia into northwest North America, settling in some areas of Alaska and the Yukon, [1] but are blocked from further travel south into the continent by extensive glaciation.
1867–1914; 1914–1945; 1945–1960 ... History Trek, Canadian History web portal designed for children; Further reading ... Canadian History: Canada Since 1867 ...
April 11 – Canadian Margaret C. MacDonald is appointed Matron-in-Chief of the Canadian Nursing service band and becomes the first woman in the British Empire to reach the rank of major. May 14 – First major discovery of oil in western Canada at Turner Valley; May 20 – The Niagara Falls peace conference begins. Representatives from ...
Barker, Stacey, Krista Cooke, and Molly McCullough, eds Material Traces of War: Stories of Canadian Women and Conflict, 1914—1945 (University of Ottawa Press, 2021). Broad, Graham. A Small Price to Pay: Consumer Culture on the Canadian Home Front, 1939–45 (2013) Broadfoot, Barry. Six War Years 1939-1945: Memories of Canadians at Home and ...
French-Canadian debates have escalated since the 1960s, as the Conquest is seen as a pivotal moment in the history of Quebec's nationalism. Historian Jocelyn Létourneau suggested in the 21st century, "1759 does not belong primarily to a past that we might wish to study and understand, but, rather, to a present and a future that we might wish ...
With the decline of Whig history, Canadian scholarship since the late 20th century has avoided overarching themes and concentrated on specialized research topics. No longer do they minimize conflict and violence. Military historians map troop movements in 1837–38. [47] Imperial specialists explain how London approached the crisis. [48]
The second section discusses wars involving Canada since its confederation in 1867. It lists conflicts such as the Fenian Raids, Red River Rebellion, Mahdist War, Canada in World War I and Canada in World War II, detailing the combatants, results, and casualties for each event.
In 1982, the Canada Act was passed by the British parliament and granted Royal Assent by Queen Elizabeth II on March 29. The corresponding Constitution Act was passed by the Canadian parliament and granted Royal Assent by the Queen on April 17, thus patriating the Constitution of Canada, and marking one of Trudeau's last major acts before his resignation in 1984.