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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.
His own book, Merlin's Prophecy and Other Poems (a book "steeped in Victorian Romanticism"), appeared in 1870. [4] The title poem, which used the form of Tennyson's Idylls of the King, was a purported prophecy of contemporary Canada and the British Empire, which Reade wrote to commemorate Prince Arthur's 1869 visit to Canada. John Lesperance ...
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.
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.
Pages in category "1870s in Canada" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
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 ...
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Pages in category "1870 in Canada" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...