HIS261H5 Lecture Notes - Anti-Imperialism, Imperial Preference, Great Coalition
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Overview: 1867 july 1st, canada s founding. Problems: not the start of canada, canada was initially founded by the french, this was not the beginning of canada. The name was used for geographically regions. It was not a popular senses of the world. People did not know of it at all, it was a political agreement. Some people even opposed the agreement, and it was not well liked: using confederation as a national founding has distorted the historical reality and has mislead us in some conceptions. West: from fur trade to settlement: the boundary has gone through by this time, settlement was beginning to encroach on fur trade territory. Rupert s land and british columbia has fur trade territory. 1850 there was a major gold rush which brought thousands of prospectors who lived there. They cause the migration of thousands of people find gold in cariboo (gold in the streams)
