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- - - - Aboriginal
        
        The ancestors of Aboriginal peoples are believed to have migrated from Asia many thousands of years ago
        
        Territorial rights were first guaranteed through the Royal Proclamation of 1763 by King George III.
        
        Today, the term Aboriginal peoples refers to three
        distinct groups
        
        Indian :65%
        
        all Aboriginal people who are not Inuit or Métis
        
        In the 1970s, the term First Nations began to be used
        
        About half of First Nations people live on reserve land in about 600 communities
        
        other half live off-reserve, mainly in urban centres.
        
        Inuit : 4%
        
        It means “the people” in the Inuktitut language, live in small, scattered communities across the Arctic.
        
        Métis : 30%
        
        Métis are a distinct people of mixed
        Aboriginal and European ancestry
        
        the majority of whom live in the Prairie provinces
        
        They come from both French- and English-speaking backgrounds and speak their own dialect, Michif.
        
        About 65% of the Aboriginal people are First
        Nations, while 30% are Métis and 4% Inuit.
      - French : 7 million
        
        seven million Francophones
        
        Acadians
        
        The Acadians are the descendants of French colonists, who were settling in the Maritime provinces in 1604
        
        Great Upheaval : Between 1755 -1763, during the war b/w Britain and France, more than two-thirds of the Acadians were deported from their homeland
        
        Quebecers
        
        Most are descendants of 8,500 French settlers from the 1600s and 1700s
        
        The House of Commons recognized in 2006 that the Quebecois form a nation within a united Canada
      - British : 18 million
        
        there are 18 million Anglophones
      - New Brunswick is
        the only officially bilingual province
    - - Exploring a river, naming Canada
        
        Between 1534 and 1542, Jacques Cartier made three voyages across the Atlantic, claiming the land for King Francis I of France. Cartier heard the Iroquoian word kanata, meaning “village.” By the 1550s, the name of Canada began appearing on maps. the first European to explore the St. Lawrence River and to set eyes on present-day Québec City and Montreal.
        
        Royal New France
        
        In 1604, the first European settlement north of Florida was established by French explorers Pierre de Monts and Samuel de Champlain. In 1608 Champlain built a fortress at what is now Québec City. The French and the Iroquois made peace in 1701.
        
        Struggle for a continent
        
        In 1670, King Charles II of England granted the Hudson’s Bay Company exclusive trading rights over the watershed draining into Hudson Bay. In 1759, the British defeated the French in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Québec City — marking the end of France’s empire in America.
        
        The province of Quebec
        
        Following the war, Great Britain renamed the colony the “Province of Quebec.” known as habitants or Canadiens
        
        A tradition of accommodation
        
        To better govern the French Roman Catholic majority, the British Parliament passed the Quebec Act of 1774.The Quebec Act restored French civil law while maintaining British criminal law
        
        United empire loyalists
        
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      - European exploration began in earnest in 1497 with the expedition of John Cabot, who was the first to draw a map of Canada’s East Coast. claiming the New Founde Land for England
- - - - Freedom of conscience and religion;
      - Freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of speech and of the press
      - Freedom of peaceful assembly
      - Freedom of association
    - - the right to challenge unlawful detention by the state, comes from English common law
    - - Mobility Rights — Canadians can live and work anywhere they choose in Canada, enter and leave the country freely, and apply for a passport
      - Aboriginal Peoples’ Rights — The rights guaranteed in the Charter will not adversely affect any treaty or other rights or freedoms of Aboriginal peoples.
      - Official Language Rights and Minority Language Educational Rights — French and English have equal status in Parliament and throughout the government.
      - Multiculturalism — A fundamental characteristic of the Canadian heritage and identity. Canadians celebrate the gift of one another’s presence and work hard to respect pluralism and live in harmony.
      - The Equality of Women and Men