Social Studies unit 2
The ability to speak two different languages fluently.
Bilingualism
The french speaking inhabitants of new France.
Canadiens
A person whose first language is english.
Anglophone
A person whose first language is French.
Francophone
Colonists in what is today the united states who remained loyal to great Britain.
Loyalists
A Quebec nationalist party founded in 1968.
Parti Quebecois
A policy that proposes that Quebec should be an independant country with strong economic ties to Canada.
Sovereignity Association
A vote of which the people of a country approve or reject a law proposed by the government.
Referendum
The first governer of New British colony of Quebec.
Governer James Murray
5 Main points of the quebec act
Quebecs border was expanded far to the west. No land was taken from the French. Roman catholics were free to practise their religion and hold public office. French civil law was retained. No elected assembly was created.
Governer General of British North America after the rebellions of 1837-1838. Recommended uniting upper and lower Canada as a way of assimilating the Francophone population.
Lord Durham
Confederation of Canada: Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
1867 Confederation BNA Act
Founder of Manitoba, leader of the Metis people. Led the Red River Resistance and the North West Rebellion.
Louis Riel
A series of actions taken by Metis People to protect their land, culture and rights from the Canadian government.
- Metis french speaking catholics are most of the population
- Ruperts land owned by HBC sold to Canadian Government
- Metis and First Nations were not consulted by the government
- Riel in November 1849 established a provisional government to develop rights to protect the Metis
Metis Resistance
The premier of Manitoba during The Manitoba Schools Question.
Thomas Greenway
FLQ
Front de liberation du Quebec
- A terrorist organization which condoned the use of violence to achieve Quebec independance.
Maitres Chez Nous
Masters in our own house
Ethnocentrism
The attitude that one's own culture is superior to others.
Conscription Crisis
Mandatory Military Service, Canada sent out volunteers to fight in WWI, but by 1916 Canada was no longer able to recruit soldiers.
Official Languages Act
Passed in 1969
Both English and French became official languages in Canada
All labels had to be in both languages
Many Canadian Anglophones were unhappy
Sovereignity
The supreme and independent political control of a country, including the recognition of a country's borders and territories by other nations.
Rebellion
an act of violent or open resistance to an established government or ruler.
National Assembly
The name given to the provincial legislature, or parliament, in Quebec.
Resistance
the refusal to accept or comply with something; the attempt to prevent something by action or argument.
Seperatist
a person who supports the separation of a particular group of people from a larger body on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or gender.
Bloc Quebecois
New political party from 1993 federal election.
- Leader was a polished, elegant and powerful debater - Lucien Bouchard.
Manitoba Schools Question
-1890 premier Thomas Greenway eliminated french as an official language of Manitoba
-Ontario Politician Dalton McCarthy supported this, then eliminated seperate catholic schools
-1896 new prime minister wilfred laurie, established the laurier greenway compromise, allowed for french or catholic instruction if paid by parents
Northwest Rebellion 1885
-Metis population now living in modern day saskatchewan.
-Seek out Louis Riel who is a school teacher in Montana to help protect their rights against the federal government