Ontario

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Ontario

• Ontario entered Confederation on July 1, 1867
• Ontarios leaders were John A MacDonald
• George Brown
• William Lyon MacKenzie

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Ontario

• Reasons to join
• The railway would be built and the cost shared
• It would end taxes being paid on trade
• poorer regions could get help with debt
• defence would be better after Confederation
• Britain agreed with it.

• The old links with Britain might be broke
• The new colonies might have to pay more debts
  with the railway and that of other colonies

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Newfoundland

• Confederation at March 31, 1949
• People leading our province were
• Joey Smallwood
• Ambrose Shea

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NFLD

• To join
• The British would support it
• poorer regions would have more money
• better trades would happen

• Not to join
• The old ties with Britain might be weakened by
  forming a new nation

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Africans in Canada

• Willie ORee - An important Canadian
• He started playing hockey at the age of five
• The first African to play in the NHL
• He was alive in the 1950s
• He lived in New Brunswick
• He added to the diversity in Canada because he
  was innocent to the racism til he got older and
  hope that he could change that with some people.

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Africans in Canada

• Rose Mary Brown
• She graduate from MacGill in Montreal
• Went to get her masters in BC
• She got the National Black Coalition Award
• She was part of the United Nations Fellowship
• She tried to make Canada a better place
• She was the first woman to be elected to the BC
  Legislature
• Chief comminsionare of Ont Human Rights

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Africans In Canada

• Important Person in African Canadian History -
  Calvin Ruck
• Born in Sydney
• He wrote about the No.2 Construction Battalion
  (Canadas First and only Black Battalion)
• He won the Harry Jerome Award in 1986
• Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Dalhousie
  University.

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Prince Edward Island

• Entered Canada in 1873
• Our leaders were
• William Pope
• James C. Pope
• George Coles

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PEI

• We joined late because
• better government to get rid of deadlock
• the railway
• they wanted to be able to have a say in the
  government without Britain ruling them

• Dont join because
• they did not want poorer colonies to get their
  money
• they did not want others to depend on their
  supply
• they did not want to be overlooked cause they
  were small

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Quebec

• When we entered July 1, 1867
• Our main leaders were
• Sir Hector Louis
• Louis Papineau
• JA MacDonald

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Quebec 2

• We joined right away because
• The national government would have to pay all
  money for poor colonies
• After Confederation we would be better able to
  hold off the Americans

• Not to join reason we considered
• Colonies would not be as loyal to Britain
• Colonies loyalty might not identify with the new
  nation
• They thought that their French would be lost

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Nova Scotia

• We joined Confederation in July 1, 1867
• Leaders of NS
• Joseph Howe
• Robert Dickey
• Charles Tupper

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NS 2

• We stayed because
• we wanted to build a railway
• we wanted to defend ourselves against the US
• British support was in place
• we wanted to trade between colonies

• We wanted to say no
• The St. Lawrence would freeze and isolate us in
  the winter
• Local power would be given away
• The old ties with Britain might be hurt with a
  new nation