[HIST 242] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (27 pages long!)

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Cover transition canada is making from a british colony to a definitive part of the common wealth as well as entering cultural/political spheres. On one hand canada is a part of an empire based on trade and politics, and one the other you have the geographic reality, you have such a proximity to the united. States, which means for the vast majority of people they have a relationship with the states both literal and physical. Much of early canada was controlled either by french or no europeans at all, the conquest in the 1760s gave canada over to british control, the french have no political presence in canada for near three hundred years. For over a hundred years, canada, was controlled by the british, 1867 over a gradual period of political transformations, canada obtained confederation. Canada became free to determine its own internal affairs for the most part, it wouldn"t be for more than half a century later that canadian.