150 years of Canada : year-by-year fascinating facts by Jackson, A. H., 1944- author instant download

150 years of Canada : year-by-year fascinating facts by Jackson, A. H., 1944- author instant download

160 pages : 21 cm, \"Trivia about Canada from 1867 to the present. Celebrating Canada's 150 birthday.\"--, The 1860s : birth of a nation and rebellion -- The 1870s : growth of a nation, the North-West Mounted Police and building a railway -- The 1880s : O Canada, Canadian Pacific Railway and another rebellion -- The 1890s : the Stanley Cup, Manitoba schools and the Klondike gold rush -- The 1990s : National pride, new provinces and the Grey Cup -- The 1910s : Parks Canada, an Arctic expedition, World War I and women's suffrage -- The 1920s : The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Banting and Best, the King-Byng affair and the persons case -- The 1930s : Depression, Quintland and the CBC -- The 1940s : World War II, Viola Desmond, Alberta oil and Newfoundland -- The 1950s : Korea, the Richard riot, Suez peacekeeping and no more Avro Arrow -- The 1960s : Quiet Revolution, Tim Hortons, the maple leaf flag and Canada's centennial -- The 1970s : metric conversion, the October Crisis, Hockey supremacy and NHL expansion -- The 1980s : Terry Fox, Canada in space, the constitution and Gretzky gone -- The 1990s : the Oka crisis, cod collapse, the Québec Referendum and Nunavut -- The 2000s : Afghanistan, BlackBerry and marriage equality -- The 2010s : political shifts, no more penny, terror in Ottawa and the sesquicentennial