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Berton, Pierre
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Journalist, historian, media personality. (1920-2004).
Canadian Historical Association Awards
Resource Type: Unclassified
Connexions Archive seeks a new home
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2009
The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
Elementary, dear teacher
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2004
Discusses an 1868 murder as means and motive to teaching history as investigation rather than a timeline with concrete established facts, encouraging more critical thinking and acknowledgement that we can't always know the answers.
New Hogtown Press
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 2010
New Hogtown Press was a Canadian left-wing publisher active during the 1970s and 1980s.
North-West Rebellion
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A brief and unsuccessful uprising by the Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel against the Dominion of Canada, which they believed had failed to address their concerns for the survival of their people.
On-to-Ottawa Trek
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
A 1935 social movement of unemployed men protesting the dismal conditions in federal relief camps scattered in remote areas across Western Canada.
Rebellions of 1837
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Canadian armed uprisings that occurred in 1837 and 1838.
Red River Rebellion
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Name given to the events surrounding the actions of a provisional government established by Métis leader Louis Riel in 1869 at the Red River Settlement in what is now the Canadian province of Manitoba.
Riel, Louis
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Metis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the North-West rebellion. (1844-1885).
Slavery in Canada
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Slavery in what now comprises Canada existed into the 1830s, when slavery was officially abolished. Some slaves were of African descent, while others were aboriginal (typically called panis, likely a corruption of Pawnee).
Trudeau, Pierre
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Pierre Trudeau was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from 20 April 1968 to 4 June 1979, and again from 3 March 1980 to 30 June 1984.
War Measures Act
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
The War Measures Act was a Canadian statute that allowed the government to assume sweeping emergency powers in the event of "war, invasion or insurrection, real or apprehended". Enacted in August 1914, the act remained in force until being superseded by the Emergencies Act in 1988.

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