CANADIAN HISTORY THRU STAMPS

CANADIAN HISTORICAL STAMPS - QUESTIONS

Efficient transportation

Iroquois

The Great White North

Chippiwa

First Nations' Dances

Reliable Transport

Food Resource

Inuit

1 of Canada's National Sports

Colony of New France

Cabot: Named: (New Found Land)

Jean Talon 1665 - Canada's 1st Official Statistician

Jacques Cartier: French Navigator 1534 -1542 / Was looking for the Northwest passage to the Orient (1854 Stamp) : Named Montreal

Early Quebec

Wolfe & Montcalm 1759: French & English Fighting for Control of the colonies in Canada

Quebec Habitations 1608

Champlain: founder of Port Royal (Acadia)

Early Explorers

British Fort 1812

1798 Cartographer for the North West Company (Fur Trading Co.)

United Empire Loyalists: Loyal to the British King

Loyal to Britain: Fled America after they became an independent country, no longer a British Colony

French-English Alliance 1843: Favoured the union of Upper Canada & Lower Canada: Became the Province of Canada in 1841

Canada's National Symbol: 1851 Stamp

Was married to Queen Victoria

Fathers of Confederation: Joining of British Colonies to form the country Canada

Map of Canada just before Confederation (Birth of a Nation)

British Queen Victoria 1851

Parliament Built between 1859 - 1866: Next year (1867) Ottawa was named the capital of the New Dominion of Canada chosen by Queen Victoria

July 1, 1867: Confederation: British Colonies Joining to form the Dominion of Canada

Under British Rule

The London Conference: Finalizing Confederation - the Birth of Canada

Queen Victoria

North-West Mounted Police, founded in 1873 to guarantee the peaceful, orderly settlement of the Canadian West

Thomas D'Arcy Mcgee: 1st Canadian Politician to be assassinated (by Patrick Whelan)He was a liberal cabinet minister. About 15, 000 attended his funeral

Officer in the North-west Mounted Police (late 1800's helped police the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush

A Canadian Symbol: The Mounty

Gabriel Dumont: Led the small Metis military force during the Northwest Resistance of 1885

Cash Crops helping to open up the west

A Staple Resource

Metis leader of Rebellion (Manitoba): Hung in 1885 as a traitor to Canada

British Major General in charge of troops in Upper Canada

Upper Canada Settler who warned the British of an imminent American Attack (War of 1812)

Sir Sandford Fleming (1827-1915). surveyor, engineer, inventor of standard time zones in 1878, (Knighted in 1897)

Queen Victoria

King Edward