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- Sir John A. Macdonald resignationletter
- railway built by Chinese immigrants
- the Manitoba act was created
- Manitoba act.
- National policy
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- All in favor to increase taxes say I
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- Chinese laborers at work on construction for the railroad built across the Sierra Nevada Mountains, circa 1870s
- Indian Act and Treaties
- The Manitoba Act stated that Métis lands would be protected but all other lands were the property of the Dominion of Canada. The Métis could not get legal title to their lands until Dominion surveyors had finished sectioning the land - a job which took three years.
- pacific scandal pt.1
- The National Policy was a central economic and political strategy of the Conservative Party under Prime Minister John A. Macdonald
- pacific scandal pt.2
- The Indian Act is the principal statute through which the federal government administers Indian status, local First Nations governments and the management of reserve land and communal monies. It was first introduced in 1876 as a consolidation of previous colonial ordinances that aimed to eradicate First Nations culture in favour of assimilation into Euro-Canadian society.
- Indian act.
- In April 1873, Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald and senior members of his Conservative government were accused of accepting election funds from shipping magnate Sir Hugh Allan in exchange for the contract to build the transcontinental Canadian Pacific Railway.
- Have you been accepting election funds from Sir Hugh Allan to support you railway idea?
- I have no recolection of any sort of events kind sir
- The affair stung Macdonald and forced the resignation of his government in November 1873, but it didn’t destroy him politically.
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