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Pacific Scandal: changes of corruption against John. A. Macdonald for taking bribes. (Forced John. A. Macdonald to resign in 1874).
National Policy: (1878) really a three part campaign platform (political promises (eat/west trade, peopling the prairies, railroad.)
Indian Act: government law setting out he rules by which native peoples were to live in Canada (called paternalists which means they treated Natives like Children.)
North -West Rebellion 1885: Riel and Metis try a second time to get a fair deal from Canada (death of Riel causes much trouble from English and French.)
Manitoba Schools Act: law in Manitoba that cancelled rights of French to their own schools etc. (more difficulties between French and English.)
Metis: people from mixed heritage, native and European. (The Metis nation formed the backbone of the fur trade in the west by acting as agents between the naive groups and the Europeans.)
Provisional Government: government set up by Riel to replace the H.B.C rule of the Red River Colony. (Their governing spoke for their area in negotiations with Canada.)
They came from Scotland in 1820 and settled near Peterborough, Ontario. David Fife spent much of his experimenting with wheat. He was trying to develop a strong and healthy kind of wheat that would grow well in Canada. In 1843, Fife sowed a few wheat seeds that he had receive in the mail from a friend in Glascow. The seed had originally come from Europe somewhere. Only one plant had healthy stocks with good fat heads. Fife saved the seeds from the plant. From the seeds of that one plant came a new type of wheat known as Red Fife. It was a hardy plant strain that did not come down with common wheat diseases. Most Important, it matured 10 days earlier than other kinds of wheat. This was a key factor on the prairies where the frost-free growing season is short. Soon many other prairie farmers were growing and harvesting Red Fife.
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