Canada from Conquest to Present

Canada from Conquest to Present

Introduction

Canada is a country with over 33 million people occupying northern North America and is the second largest country in the world. The first inhabitants of the region were different peoples from Siberia, who came across the Bering Strait, and a little later came the past Inuit people (Eskimos) from Asia. After the discovery of America, other European countries arrived in search of new lands. Settlers from England and France came to the northern part of America and fought to stay there. France established two colonies in early 1600 that is now Canada. After several battles between France and England, these colonies were conquered by the British in the eighteenth century.

However, although the colony of Acadie was destroyed and its inhabitants dispersed, the colony of Quebec survived with rights to maintain their own language and French laws in exchange for loyalty to the United Kingdom. After American independence, the English colonists who remained loyal to the motherland (UK) immigrated to Canada. Through treaties with Indian tribes, the colonists settled mainly in what is now Ontario. Unlike the United States, who fought for their freedom, Canada evolved peacefully. Through a treaty accepted by Queen Victoria, Canada became an independent self-governing federation in 1867. Now, Canadians celebrate the "Day of Queen Victoria 'on the third Monday in May, in recognition and commemoration of the longest reigning monarch of the British Empire (1837-1901).

History of the Conquest of Canada

War of the 7 years (1756-1763)

The Seven Years War was a series of trade disputes and rivalries between the French and British colonial result in a war involving Europe and its colonies. In North America increased immigration pressure increase of 400,000 English settlers on the French territories, sparsely populated by 70,000 settlers but strongly protected by forts. The constant skirmishes turn into an armed conflict in the valley of the Ohio in 1754. Initially, Britain suffered a defeat at Fort Duquesne and failure when trying to Crown Point in 1755. French counterattacks succeeded in taking Fort William Henry, Fort George and Fort Oswego in 1756. But the French forces led by General Louis-Joseph de Saint-Veran, Marquis de Montcalm soon are incapable of receiving help from the metropolis of France due to blockage of the Royal Navy. Yet the French managed to defeat the English at Ticonderoga in 1758. (Usherwood,2005)

The British led by James Wolfe managed to defeat the troops of the Marquis de Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham, near Quebec in 1759 taking the city Marquis de Montcalm and James Wolfe died in the battle. On September 8th of 1760 falls Montreal and the English colony of New France were fully occupied. The Treaty of Paris (1763) February 10 makes France leave their possessions in North America except the islands St. Pierre and Miquelon and retaining fishing rights in the vicinity of Newfoundland. Most chose to remain French settlers in Quebec despite being a British colony. (Kulchyski,2007)

Canada during the interwar period (1919-1938)

The decade of 1920 was of ...