[HIST 242] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (16 pages long!)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 242
• Professor: Christo Aivalis

Document Summary

First paper: women contribution to canadian history mostly prior to 1950, why chose them and why choice significant. Tension: one hand canada part of empire (politics, colonialism) and at same time geographic realities that every person every nation lives with. Most land in canada either owned by non-european, or the french. 1760: conquest largely ended french control of most of north american. Left canada and it"s territory an undisputed british possession. For over 100 years, what is known as. 1867: over a gradual period of short political revolutinos and political transformations and evolutinos in which canada gained confederation responsible government, free to determine its own internal affairs for the most part. Supreme court decisions were the supreme decision, after wwi, all sc decisions were appealed to london: international affairs remained in sphere of empire. Canada has its first forrary into responsible governing part of empire into late 1800s, early 1900s with the boer war.