Project

First Step: Pick a topic and do some reading on that topic. Below is a partial list, and above are teacher provided links for your reading. Check with your teacher if you have another topic in mind.

Confederation of 1867 and the conferences that led up to it.

John A. McDonald’s role in Confederation, building a railway, and settling the West

Thomas McGee falls victim to the Fenians, becoming our first political assignation. 

1869 Hudson Bay land sold, local people here rebel and take control of the land

Louis Riel’s role in leading the resistance against Canada

1870 Manitoba join Canada, under certain conditions 

1870 Collapse of the Bison herds in Western Canada

1870 Wolseley Expedition 

1870 The last tribal war is fought on the Prairies between the Cree and the Blackfoot 

1871 The first of the numbered treaties is signed

1871 B.C. joins Canada 

1871 The National Dream

1873 The Pacific Scandal 

1873 The Cyprus Hills massacre

1873 P.E.I. joins Canada

Homesteading-Canada’s efforts to attract farmers

1873-4 The North West Mounted Police are formed and start their trek from Manitoba across the prairie

1876 The Indian Act

The Role of Residential schools

1877 The University of Manitoba is created 

1881 Creation of the C.P.R. to complete the National Dream

1885 The NorthWest Rebellion

Gabriel Dumont’s role in the 1885 Rebellion

Poundmaker

Louis Riel’s role in the 1885 Rebellion