Becoming Modern, 18851918 Timeline

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Chapter 7

• Becoming Modern, 18851918 Timeline

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Timeline

• 1886
• W.S. Fielding introduces legislation in Nova
  Scotia calling for secession from the union.
• The first CPR transcontinental arrives in
  Manitoba.
• 1887
• Honoré Mercier leads nationaliste Liberals to
  victory in Quebec.
• St Catharines opens first electric streetcar
  system in Canada.

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• 1890
• Manitoba government abolishes public funding for
  Catholic schools.
• CPR builds rail line through Maine to connect
  Moncton with Montreal.
• 1891
• Sir John A. Macdonald dies.
• 1892
• A great fire destroys St Johns, Newfoundland.

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• 1896
• Wilfrid Laurier leads the Liberal Party to a
  national electoral victory.
• Gold is discovered in the Klondike.
• The Manitoba Schools Question becomes a national
  issue.
• 1898
• A national referendum is held on prohibition of
  alcoholic beverages.
• Newfoundland completes a railway across the
  island.

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• 1899
• Canadian Northern Railway is incorporated.
• Alaskan Boundary Dispute is referred to an
  international tribunal.
• Canada agrees to send volunteer troops to South
  Africa.
• 1900
• Art Museum of Toronto is founded.
• Prohibition legislation is passed on Prince
  Edward Island.

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• 1901
• The first wireless message transmitted across the
  Atlantic is received on Signal Hill near St
  Johns, Newfoundland.
• 1902
• Ernest Thompson Seton founds Woodcraft Indians.
• 1903
• Alaska Boundary Dispute between Canada and the US
  is handed over to a joint commission of six
  impartial jurists of repute.

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• 1905
• Saskatchewan and Alberta are created as provinces
  out of the North-West Territories.
• Ontario Conservatives finally win political
  control of the province.
• 1906
• Ontario Hydro-Electric Commission is created.

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• 1907
• Development of Marquis wheat. Canadian Department
  of Interior begins playing bonuses to European
  immigrant agents for labourers.
• Canadian Art Club is founded in Toronto.
• 1909
• Department of External Affairs is created.
• 1910
• Steel Company of Canada is created by an
  amalgamation of smaller firms.

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• 1911
• Robert Bordens Conservatives take over federal
  government in the Reciprocity Election.
• Marius Barbeau is appointed as anthropologist in
  the Museum Branch of the Geological Survey of
  Canada.
• Noranda gold/copper mine opens in Quebec.
• 1912
• Social Services Council of Canada is organized.
• Quebecs boundaries are extended to Hudson Bay.

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• 1914
• Canada and Newfoundland enter the Great War.
• 1915
• Canadian Expeditionary Force fights in the first
  Battle of Ypres.
• Ontario introduces Regulation 17.
• 1916
• Canada introduces a business profits tax.
• The Newfoundland Regiment is decimated at the
  Battle of Beaumont Hamel.

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• 1917
• Canadian Expeditionary Force suffers heavy losses
  at Vimy in April.
• Canada introduces an income tax.
• Conscription crisis emerges over introduction of
  Military Services Act, followed by the Wartime
  Elections Act.
• Much of Halifax is destroyed by an explosion.

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• 1918
• The Great War ends.
• Spanish influenza epidemic begins.