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Dominion
Of Canada
Location
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Above the U.S.N.A. |
The land mass that now makes up Canada was originally settled in the Ice
Age by a Mongolian people, probably passing over the Bering Straight. Some
of them remained there till today, others forging their ways deeper into
the new continent until it was filled with people. The second wave of immigration
was short lived, a settlement founded by Leif Ericson along the north coast
around one thousand before the common era. The story had been forgotten
and believed to be myth until archaeological evidence proved otherwise.
The third and more permanent wave of settlement began in the sixteenth
century with the arrival of the French and the British.
At the beginning of the seventeenth century France set its eyes hungrily
on the new world in hopes of building a new French Empire. They used fur
traders to start settling the land and encourage business and settling
in the new world. The most unsettling side effect was the gradual interruption
of the native people which led to several small scale wars thereafter,
mostly from sixteen hundred and fifty to sixteen hundred and sixty.
For more than a century after that, New France was caught up in the war
between England and France, in which America was only a second battlefield.
Try as hard as they did, New France's population was very small and weak
compared to Britain's colony to the south, and lost battle after battle
during all of the wars until it finally fell under permanent control of
Britain.
Britain had a hard time controlling the colonists, until they guaranteed
them their native language and religion a century after their capture.
After that point they were loyal enough to remain neutral during the American
Revolution. After Britain's defeat, over fifty thousand British Loyalists
moved north and demanded the same rights as they had enjoyed in the former
British colonies. Britain ceded to their demands, dividng Canada into two
parts, one which spoke English and was Protestant, the other which was
Catholic and spoke French. This division has been the source of controversy
in Canada for the last two centuries.
The new economic and governmental changes implemented by Britain worked
for half a century, until a near revolution caused Britain to eye its
policies very carefully. Citing ethnic differences, and jealousy on part
of the American development south of them, John George Lambton, first Earl
of Durham, recommended several changes in the Durham report of eighteen
hundred and thirty-nine. The following year the Act of Union was passed.
Southern Canada and Northern Canada became one nation, each with representation
in the government that they elected, and an executive who was by law held
to their joint decisions.
Those changes stayed in effect until eighteen hundred and sixty-seven,
when three reformers passed the British North American act, forming the
Dominion of Canada, becoming the first colony to get a responsible government
without leaving the British Empire. These changes have stayed in effect
until the current day, although turmoil, new changes and political parties
have come and gone over the last century.
Until the great war of the early twentieth century, the Dominion of Canada
remained a strong country with a stable economy. After Germany was stuck
with the war bill it had created, the government encouraged out of work
engineers and scientists to move into the country. They were promised higher
wages than they were previously making, and homes for their families. At
first this program was a controversy to its citizens, who did not want
to "waste" money on the same Germans they had just been fighting. Their
doubts began to disappear when the happy new immigrants turned their industries
into mechanical power houses. Since then the Dominion of Canada has been
been the world's leader in automobile, aerospace and military innovation.
Canada was never the home of the institution of slavery in the nineteenth
century, nor is it today. In nineteen hundred and twenty five Prime Minister
Fianna and "his" new parliament declared Anthros to be full human beings,
since that day the new Underground Railroad, the "Subway" has been very
active in bringing recent escapees north to the Dominion. |
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