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Main articles: History of Canada, Timeline of Canadian history, and Territorial evolution of Canada

Aboriginal peoples and European Colonization

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Main articles: Aboriginal peoples in Canada, New France, Canada under British Imperial control, and Former colonies and territories in Canada
The fur trade was Canada's most important industry until the 1800s

Aboriginal peoples in Canada include the First Nations,[1] Inuit,[2] and Métis.[3] Although archaeological[4] and indigenous genetic studies[5] support a human presence in the northern Yukon from 26,500 years ago and southern Ontario from 9,500 years ago[6][7][8][9], aboriginal traditions hold that they have occupied their territories since the beginning of creation.[10] The characteristics of Canadian Aboriginal civilizations included permanent settlements,[11] agriculture,[12] civic and ceremonial architecture,[13] complex societal hierarchies and trading networks.[14] The population is estimated to have been between 200,000[15] and two million in the late 15th century,[16] with a currently accepted figure of 500,000.[17]

Europeans first arrived when Norse sailors settled briefly at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland around 1000;[18][19] subsequently, no known European exploration occurred until Italian seafarer Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot) explored Canada's Atlantic coast for England in 1497.[20] Between 1498 and 1521, various Portuguese and Basque mariners reconoittered eastern Canada and established fishing posts in the region.[21][22] In 1534 Jacques Cartier explored the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the Saint Lawrence River for France.[23]

French explorer Samuel de Champlain arrived in 1603 and established the first permanent European settlements at Port Royal in 1605 and Quebec City in 1608.[24] Among French colonists of New France, Canadiens extensively settled the Saint Lawrence River valley and Acadians settled the present-day Maritimes, while French fur traders and Catholic missionaries explored the Great Lakes, Hudson Bay, and the Mississippi watershed to Louisiana. A Métis culture originated in the mid-17th century when First Nation and Inuit married European fur traders.[25] The French and Iroquois Wars broke out over control of the North American fur trade.[26] Repeated outbreaks of European infectious diseases such as influenza, measles and smallpox (to which they had no natural immunity) resulted in a forty to eighty percent aboriginal population decrease.[15] The Inuit had more limited interaction with European settlers during the colonization period.[27]

Benjamin West's The Death of General Wolfe (1771) dramatizes Wolfe's death during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Quebec in 1759; the battle was part of the Seven Years' War

The English established fishing outposts in Newfoundland around 1610 and established the Thirteen Colonies to the south.[28] A series of four Intercolonial Wars erupted between 1689 and 1763.[29] Mainland Nova Scotia came under British rule with the Treaty of Utrecht (1713); the Treaty of Paris (1763) ceded Canada and most of New France to Britain after the Seven Years' War.[30]

The Royal Proclamation (1763) carved the Province of Quebec out of New France and annexed Cape Breton Island to Nova Scotia.[31] St. John's Island (now Prince Edward Island) became a separate colony in 1769.[32] To avert conflict in Quebec, the British passed the Quebec Act of 1774, expanding Quebec's territory to the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley. It re-established the French language, Catholic faith, and French civil law there. This angered many residents of the Thirteen Colonies and helped to fuel the American Revolution.[31]

The Treaty of Paris (1783) recognized American independence and ceded territories south of the Great Lakes to the United States. Around 50,000 United Empire Loyalists fled the United States to Canada.[33] New Brunswick was split from Nova Scotia as part of a reorganization of Loyalist settlements in the Maritimes. To accommodate English-speaking Loyalists in Quebec, the Constitutional Act of 1791 divided the province into French-speaking Lower Canada (later the province of Quebec) and English-speaking Upper Canada (later Ontario), granting each its own elected Legislative Assembly.[34]

Robert Harris's Fathers of Confederation,[35] an amalgamation of the Charlottetown and Quebec conferences

Canada (Upper and Lower) was the main front in the War of 1812 between the United States and the British Empire. Following the war, large-scale immigration to Canada from Britain and Ireland began in 1815.[36] From 1825 to 1846, 626,628 European immigrants landed at Canadian ports.[37] Between one-quarter and one-third of all Europeans who immigrated to Canada before 1891 died of infectious diseases.[15] The timber industry surpassed the fur trade in economic importance in the early 19th century.

The desire for responsible government resulted in the aborted Rebellions of 1837. The Durham Report subsequently recommended responsible government and the assimilation of French Canadians into British culture.[31] The Act of Union 1840 merged The Canadas into a united Province of Canada. Responsible government was established for all British North American provinces by 1849.[38] The signing of the Oregon Treaty by Britain and the United States in 1846 ended the Oregon boundary dispute, extending the border westward along the 49th parallel. This paved the way for British colonies on Vancouver Island (1849) and in British Columbia (1858).[39] Canada launched a series of exploratory expeditions to claim Rupert's Land and the Arctic region.

Confederation and expansion

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Main articles: Canadian Confederation and Territorial evolution of Canada
When Canada was formed in 1867 its provinces were a relatively narrow strip in the southeast, with vast territories in the interior. It grew by adding British Columbia in 1871, P.E.I. in 1873, the British Arctic Islands in 1880, and Newfoundland in 1949, Its provinces grew both in size and number at the expense of its territories.
An animated map, exhibiting the growth and change of Canada's provinces and territories since Confederation

Following several constitutional conferences, the Constitution Act, 1867 officially proclaimed Canadian Confederation, creating "one Dominion under the name of Canada" on July 1, 1867, with four provinces: Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick.[40][41][42] Canada assumed control of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory to form the Northwest Territories, where the Métis' grievances ignited the Red River Rebellion and the creation of the province of Manitoba in July 1870.[43] British Columbia and Vancouver Island (which had united in 1866) and the colony of Prince Edward Island joined the Confederation in 1871 and 1873, respectively.[44] Prime Minister John A. Macdonald's Conservative government established a national policy of tariffs to protect nascent Canadian manufacturing industries.[45]

To open the West, the government sponsored construction of three trans-continental railways (including the Canadian Pacific Railway), opened the prairies to settlement with the Dominion Lands Act, and established the North-West Mounted Police to assert its authority over this territory.[46][47] In 1898, after the Klondike Gold Rush in the Northwest Territories, the Canadian government created the Yukon Territory. Under Liberal Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier, continental European immigrants settled the prairies, and Alberta and Saskatchewan became provinces in 1905.[44]

Early 20th century

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Main article: Canada in the World Wars and Interwar Years
A group of soldiers with guns march on uneven ground past a wrecked tank and the body of another soldier
Canadian soldiers at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917

Because Britain still maintained control of Canada's foreign affairs under the Confederation Act, its declaration of war in 1914 automatically brought Canada into World War I.[48] Volunteers sent to the Western Front later became part of the Canadian Corps.[48] The Corps played a substantial role in the Battle of Vimy Ridge and other major battles of the war.[48] Out of approximately 625,000 who served, about 60,000 were killed and another 173,000 were wounded.[49] The Conscription Crisis of 1917 erupted when conservative Prime Minister Robert Borden brought in compulsory military service over the objection of French-speaking Quebecers.[48] In 1919, Canada joined the League of Nations independently of Britain and,[48] in 1931, the Statute of Westminster affirmed Canada's independence.[50]

The Great Depression brought economic hardship all over Canada. In response, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in Alberta and Saskatchewan enacted many measures of a welfare state (as pioneered by Tommy Douglas) into the 1940s and 1950s.[51] Canada declared war on Germany independently during World War II under Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, three days after Britain. The first Canadian Army units arrived in Britain in December 1939.[48]

Canadian troops played important roles in the failed 1942 Dieppe Raid in France, the Allied invasion of Italy, the D-Day landings, the Battle of Normandy, and the Battle of the Scheldt in 1944.[48] Canada provided asylum and protection for the monarchy of the Netherlands while that country was occupied, and is credited by the country for leadership and major contribution to its liberation from Nazi Germany.[52] The Canadian economy boomed as industry manufactured military materiel for Canada, Britain, China, and the Soviet Union.[48] Despite another Conscription Crisis in Quebec, Canada finished the war with one of the largest armed forces in the world and the second-wealthiest economy.[53][54]

Modern times

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Main articles: History of Canada (1945–1960), (1960–1981), (1982–1992), and (1992–present)
At Rideau Hall, Governor General the Viscount Alexander of Tunis (centre) receives for his signature the bill finalizing the union of Newfoundland and Canada, March 31, 1949

Newfoundland (now Newfoundland and Labrador) joined Canada in 1949[55]. Canada's post-war economic growth, combined with the policies of successive Liberal governments, led to the emergence of a new Canadian identity, marked by the adoption of the current Maple Leaf Flag in 1965,[56] the implementation of official bilingualism (English and French) in 1969,[57] and official multiculturalism in 1971.[58] There was also the founding of socially democratic programmes, such as universal health care, the Canada Pension Plan, and Canada Student Loans, though provincial governments, particularly Quebec and Alberta, opposed many of these as incursions into their jurisdictions.[59] Finally, another series of constitutional conferences resulted in the 1982 patriation of Canada's constitution from the United Kingdom, concurrent with the creation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.[60] In 1999, Nunavut became Canada's third territory after a series of negotiations with the federal government.[61]

At the same time, Quebec underwent profound social and economic changes through the Quiet Revolution of the 1960's, giving birth to a modern nationalist movement. The radical Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) ignited the October Crisis in 1970.[62] The sovereignist Parti Québécois was elected in 1976 and organized an unsuccessful referendum on sovereignty-association in 1980[62]. Attempts to accommodate Quebec nationalism constitutionally through the Meech Lake Accord failed in 1990. This led to the formation of the Bloc Québécois in Quebec and invigoration of the Reform Party of Canada in the West.[63][64] A second referendum followed in 1995, in which sovereignty was rejected by a slimmer margin of just 50.6% to 49.4%.[65] In 1997, the Supreme Court ruled that unilateral secession by a province would be unconstitutional, and the Clarity Act was passed by parliament, outlining the terms of a negotiated departure from Confederation.[65]

In addition to the issues of Quebec sovereignty, a number of crises shook Canadian society in the late 1980s and early 1990s. These included the explosion of Air India Flight 182 in 1985, the largest mass murder in Canadian history;[66] the École Polytechnique massacre in 1989, a university shooting targeting female students;[67] and the Oka Crisis in 1990,[68] the first of a number of violent confrontations between the government and Aboriginal groups.[69] Canada also joined the Gulf War in 1990 as part of a US-led coalition force, and was active in several peacekeeping missions in the late 1990s.[70] It sent troops to Afghanistan in 2001, but declined to send forces to Iraq when the US invaded in 2003.[71]

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