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PowerPoint Presentation to Accompany
Destinies: Canadian HistorySince Confederation
Sixth Edition
by R. Douglas Francis, Richard Jones, and Donald B. Smith
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Chapter One
ConfederatConfederationion
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John A. Macdonald appears seated in the
centre of this photo, taken on the first day of
the CharlottetownConference, September 1, 1864. Immediately to
the left of Macdonald stands his old political
enemy GeorgeBrown, with D’Arcy
McGee, the great orator in favour of British North
American federation, standing
directly behind Brown. A national tragedy was
McGee’s assassination on April 7, 1868, before
the Dominionwas but one year old.
Source: Library and Archives Canada/C-733.
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Sir John A. Macdonald addressing a meeting in
Toronto. From the Canadian Illustrated News,
April 31, 1878. “One thinks of those audiences,
dead and gone now, the noise, the
whisky, the laughter the tobacco,
the smell of unwashed humanity: political
meetings were entertainment, the
translation of newspapers into life”
(P.B. Waite, “Reflections on
an Un-Victorian Society,” in
D. Swainson, ed., Oliver Mowat’s Ontario [Toronto: Macmillan, 1972], p. 26).
National Archives of Canada/C-68193.
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The third quarter of the nineteenth
century marked the high point of
Maritime built sailing ships, to be replaced
by iron and steel vessels. The image
shows sailing ships in Courtenay Bay, New
Brunswick about
1860.Provincial Archives of New Brunswick/P5-360.
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Chief areas of settlement in
Canada, 1867. In terms of their
population Ontario and Québec
dominated in the new dominion.
Source: Based on John Warkentin, Canada: A
Geographical Interpretation (Toronto: Methuen, 1968), p.
45.
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First Nations Lacrosse players from the
Kahnawake community near Montreal. The First
Nations soon adapted the non-Aboriginals’
tradition of team photographs, posed,
with two players resting on their elbows
on the ground at the front, others are seated
behind, and two standing at the back.
Lee Pritzker Collection/National Archives of Canada/C-1959.
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An evening with friends in Quebec in days gone
by. Family and friends provided social cohesion
in rural Canada in the nineteenth century. Note
the cross on the wall, indicating the influence
of the Roman Catholic Church in late nineteenth
century Québec.National Archives of Canada/C-1125
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Queen Victoria receives Josiah
Henson atWindsor Castle,
March 5, 1877. In that same
year the Canadian government signed
treaty Seven with the first nations of
Southern Alberta, in the Queen’s name.The American Museum in
Britain, Claverton Manor, Bath, England.
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Montreal mourns Thomas D’Arcy McGee.
The funeral cortege, April 13, 1868, of the
victim of Canada’s first political assassination,
believed to be the work of Irish revolutionaries.
McGee strongly opposed the Fenians,
the Irish Americans who wanted to end English rule in Ireland. He was
assassinated in Ottawa on April 7, 1868.
National Archives of Canada/C-83423, photographer James Inglis.
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“Work,” a drawing that appeared in the journal
L’Opinion Publique, November 2, 1871. In the
late nineteenth century, gender inequality was as
common as class inequality. The woman
states; “You complain my dear husband, of your ten
hours of labour, I have already worked fourteen hours, and my day is still
not finished yet.”.
National Archives of CanadaC-108134.
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The teachers of Mont Ste-Marie Convent School,
1889, Centre d’archives, Congregation of Notre
Dame, Montreal.
Congrégation de Notre-Dame, 2330 ouest, rue Sherbrooke, PQ,
H3E 1G8 (514) 931-5891.