... with the French-English controversies that he would have to face in the future as Prime minister. Despite his alienation of the western provinces, Pierre Elliot Trudeau should be remembered for his strong stand against Quebec separation to keep Canada united in the midst of ... career."(Alward) This challenge was to find a way to deal with the French Canadian separatists who had formed a terrorists group known as the Front de Liberation du Quebec, or FLQ. The FLQ were a group of young French Canadian nationalists who wanted Quebec to separate from Canada because ... regained support an...

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... Campbell Macphail lost her seat in the House of Commons after nineteen years of serving on it. During World War One, women have actively participated on the western front and at home. On the western front women have joined the medical and field ambulance corps. Rough number of two thousand five hundred Canadian women enrolled as nurses serving in the Canadian Army Medical Corps ... factories, operating fishing boats on the Atlantic Sea, running farms on the prairies and other jobs that men usually did when they were home. Without women working on the home front, the Canadian wartime eco...

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... NDP has experienced some success of late. Ontario, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan have had (or currently have) an NDP provincial mandate. On the policy front, the NDP seem to be most concerned with a plan for "fair taxes now." According to the NDP, "it's time banks and big corporations paid ... cuts will inject life back into the Canadian economy by promoting investment, consumer consumption and job creation." (library4.html, 1997) On the income tax front, the PCs are also committed to giving Canadians a 10-20 per cent personal income tax cut, which would be phased in over ...

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... been conquered by Germany, and they were in the suburbs of Moscow ready to attack. Stalin needed help, thus he asked the Allies to help the USSR by opening up a Western front in Europe.(Monroe) The Canadians were the first to respond as they eagerly wanted to prevent Hitler from throwing all the might of his armies against the Soviets. In performing ... this raid, Canadian troops aided Stalin and his Soviet forces by essentially distracting the Germans from the Russian front. Canada was also the country who put the most resources into this raid. Approximately five-thousand troops were i...

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... a majority governement.3 Canada during the early years of colonization found itself in similar circumstances regarding our identity and language as the rest of the western hemisphere due in large part to the influx of settlers from a number of European countries. Eventually, Canada became split with French speaking Quebec ... do vote for sovereignty. Trudeaus government faced a serious problem in Quebec in 1970 know as the FLQ Crisis. A terrorist group called the Front de liberation du Quebec had kidnapped James Cross, a British diplomat. The premier of Quebec at the time was Robert Boura...

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... act was used as an emergency legislation in the light of the kidnapping of British diplomat James Cross and a Quebec Cabinet minister Pierre Laporte by the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ). This act had extraordinary powers of arrest, censorship and detention. Pierre Laporte was murdered by his captors and controversy continued ... with respect of the liberal democratic ways of Quebec and Canada as a whole. After he took office, there was concern in his policy concerning the western provinces and their economic future. It had seemed that in his pre-election fervor in 1968, that Trud...

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... , which took place on April 9, 1917. In this book the author, Pierre Berton, shows how civilians from Canada, a country without a military tradition, seized the best-defended German stronghold on the Western Front. The main thesis of the book, being suggested by Burton, is how Vimy became a turning point in Canada's relations with the world and in the image Canadians have of themselves ... Vimy, the Canadians lived down their reputation as a "rag-tag" army and became considered as one of the best. Vimy convinced Canadians that they were the finest troops on the Western Front and gave all...

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... size was an outstanding effort. This number helped greatly to win the Italian Campaign. For Canada's size it contributed greatly by forcing Hitler to have another front. They also revolutionized hand to hand fighting and by doing all of this, it lead to the success of the campaign. Canada made a great ... the pressure off the British and American Allies. In Southern Italy, the Allied troops forced the Germans north and caused them to set up another front that became known as the "Winter Line". The Allies needed to push the Germans as far out of Italy as they could. But in order ... ont...

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... to achieve the ever-elusive breakthrough in the German lines. It was at Vimy Ridge that the German's heavily fortified Hindenburg Line made a junction with many other trenches along the front. Behind the ridge there also lay many of German factories, which were vital for the construction of munitions and other war materials. In the battle, it was the Canadians" task ... . Engineers built elaborate tunnels deep under enemy lines, a light railroad was constructed and defended, and heavy artillery was brought aid in the battle. The troops trained on sites behind the front on terrain very si...

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... down. The Canadian corps had also captured more ground, more prisoners and more guns than any previous offence. This demonstrated that Canada is one of the outstanding formations on the Western front. The success will lead Canadian troops to even more victory and will be a turning point for the allies. After the war ended, the achievements of the Canadian corps earned us ... to be one of the biggest military assaults in historyxviii. The success at this event will turn the tables during World War II, as it leads to the liberation of Western Europe and eventually the defeat of the Nazi. ...

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... Crisis, 1970, Trudeau implemented the War Measures Act due to the kidnapping of British diplomat James Cross and of Quebec Cabinet minister Pierre La Porte by the terrorist group the Front de Liberation de Quebec (FLQ). The British diplomat was returned, but the Quebec Cabinet Minister had been murdered. Controversy over these measures and the effects on liberal democracy and Quebec ... of a shared connection between the East and the West. There have been many skeptics about Trudeau's peace missions. The fact still remains that in the autumn of 1983, no major Western power except for Ca...

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... "underground" or a "railroad," but a loosely constructed network of escape routes that originated in the South, wove through the North, and eventually ended in Canada. Escape routes also extended into western territories, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Typically, enslaved African Americans who fled from plantations and cities northern to Virginia were more likely to take refuge in northern states, Canada, and ... western territories. Those who lived in the Deep South often ensured their freedom by escaping into Mexico and the Caribbean. Among other locations to which they fled were maroon s...

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... -gun fire, hampered by rifles which jammed, violently ill and gasping for air through mud-soaked handkerchiefs, they held on until reinforcements arrived. So, Canada's first appearance in the European front showed the world that Canada was a force to be reckoned with and although the costs were high, it made people respect Canada as a military force. Early in 1917 the Allies ... by destroying their sea communications and cutting them off from overseas supplies. Gaining control of the entire coast of Europe , the Germans set out from every harbour and airfield in western Europe to cut the...

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... helped Canada become its own country. Vimy Ridge showed that careful planning, and lots of training could turn any citizen into a soldier (Encyclopedia). With no other allied operation on the western front, this organized and well planned this attack seemed like it wouldn't happen. Vimy Ridge was so fortified that all previous attempts had failed. When General Arthur Currie took on the ... ...

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... of many citizens and embedded political views we see today. It almost created a sense of propaganda in a given region. As we have seen, Québec was and still remains a front runner in expressing its political views. Looking from the outside, this could seem to have a negative effect on the country. Each and every region within Canada strive for equality and ... to implement policies that are in the best interest of Canada as a whole. We need to take into account that there is a wide range of needs. We know that more Western provinces are known for the productions of grains. Ontario and ...

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... 1968. After two years of characteristically liberal rule, the high point of Trudeau's popularity came in 1970, during the so-called October crisis. Members of an extreme separatist group, the Front de Libération de Quebec, kidnapped James Cross, a British diplomat, and Pierre Laporte, Quebec's labor minister, demanding the release of several of the organization's members who had been imprisoned ... of controversy at times, as did his radical tactics in dealing with the energy crisis of the early 1980s. Many of Canada's business leaders (especially those in the oil-rich Western province...

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... opinion polls reveal that Canadians support free trade and even some of Mulroney's greatest critics now admit that free trade has generally been good for Canada. Mulroney's next major economic front was the Goods and Services Tax (GST). The 7 per cent national sales tax that applies to the purchases of most goods and services in the country. The Conservative Government proposed ... people with more rights. This time the country held a referendum on the Accord. Canadians rejected the Accord in all parts of Canada with the exception of Ontario. People in the western provinces rejected it ...

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... best. These Blacks have entered all sorts of work fields and occupations from solid farming roots to the pursuits of university and business life. Blacks are making positive contributions to western Canada as they did for the past many years to the whole of Canada. Blacks who live in BC usually came from California to escape slavery and they arrived in ... people are human beings as well and the way we treated them in the past was terrible, it is unbelievable how they overcame all the obstacles that were put in front of them for survival. Learning about this history has given me a new v...

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... WWII Canada enjoyed the position of having the third largest navy in the world, behind our closest allies the British and the Americans. With the threats of infiltration into the western home front by German U-boats, the production of British Flower-Class corvette became Canada's greatest manufacturing effort of this time period. The Canadian Navy started its first steps in the direction ... ...

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... Hudson's Bay Company. The company traders kept the American colonist from pushing north. In addition, the company's sale of company territory to Canada let the country fill their northern and western boundaries. As a result of this sale three of the Hudson's Bay Company's former trading posts became provincial capitals Fort Garry in Winnipeg, Fort Edmonton, and Fort Victoria. It was the ... a few occasions the temperature was recorded at -36, -42, and -38, and the men's winter garments proved to be ineffective even indoors. You were unable to see a hundred yards in front of them and the...

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