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| | Encyclopedia4U - History of Canada - Encyclopedia Article |
 | | Pro-British imperialists were also opposed to the attempt to remove Canada from the Empire. | | | A political union would, he hoped, cause the French-speakers to be assimilated by English-speaking settlements, solving the problem of French Canadian nationalism once and for all. | | | In November, he was found guilty of treason and hanged, causing an uproar among French Canadians who felt English-speaking Canada was unfairly prejudiced against him. |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: History of Canada |
| | During the war Canada had a policy of not allowing refugees fleeing Nazi persecution and the Holocaust to immigrate. | | | Canada is believed to have been first visited by Europeans around 1000, when the Vikings briefly settled at L'Anse aux Meadows. | | | After the rebellions of 1837-8, the colonies of Lower and Upper Canada were united in one government, the Province of Canada, with the Act of Union (1840), in a failed attempt to assimilate the French Canadians. |
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| | Canada: history to 1867 - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Canada: history to 1867 |
| | A wave of further migrations from Siberia, beginning about 4,000 years ago, brought the Inuit people, who settled across the whole of Arctic North America, from Alaska through northern Canada to Greenland. | | | After the War of 1812 the emerging middle class, as in Britain, began to press for democratic reform. | | | The ancestors of the people who were to become American Indians (North American Indians) first entered North America from Siberia some time around 14,000–15,000 years ago. |
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| | Economic history of Canada - encyclopedia article about Economic history of Canada. |
| | Canada had traditionally been committed to free trade and had only had one experiment with a protective tariff with the Cayley-Galt Tariff of 1858. | | | The study of economic history in Canada became highly focused on economic geography, and for many years the dominant school of thought has been the Staples Thesis. | | | In part this is because Canada has had far fewer political upheavals or military conflicts than other societies. |
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