Canada in Maps

Social Studies 10

Sutherland Secondary

The Changing Face

of Canada

North America 1667

• First successful French settlements in North America

• English settlement in Virginia

• Royal Charter issued over Rupert’s Land

British North America 1763

• Treaty of Paris brings and end to The Seven Years War

• New France becomes the British colony of Quebec

• Nova Scotia encompasses modern day PEI and NB

British North America 1791

• Constitutional Act

• Quebec divided into Upper and Lower Canada

British North America 1849

• Border with US, the 49th Parallel extended to the Pacific

• Upper and Lower Canada combined as a result of the Act of Union

Canada at Confederation

• New Brunswick• Nova Scotia• The Province of

Canada becomes Ontario and Quebec

• PEI and Newfoundland refuse to join the new Dominion

Manitoba 1870• The North-West

Territories (Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory) are acquired by Canada by the Hudson's Bay Company. From part of them Manitoba is created as the fifth province.

British Columbia 1871

• British Columbia joins the Dominion of Canada as the sixth province.

Prince Edward Island 1873

• Prince Edward Island enters Confederation as the seventh province.

The Yukon Territory 1898

• Boundaries are changed in the Districts of Mackenzie, Keewatin, Ungava, Franklin and Yukon (1897). The District of Yukon becomes a Territory separate from the North-West Territories (1898). Quebec boundaries are extended north.

Alberta and Saskatchewan

• Alberta and Saskatchewan are created as provinces to make a total of nine provinces in the Dominion of Canada (1905). The district of Keewatin is transferred back to the Northwest Territories. Due to changes in adjoining areas the boundaries of the Northwest Territories are redefined (1906).

Newfoundland 1949

• At its own request, after a plebiscite, Newfoundland enters the Confederation as the tenth and most recent province of the Dominion of Canada.

Nunavut 1999

• Nunavut became Canada's third territory April 1, 1999. For the first time since the entry of Newfoundland into Confederation fifty years ago, the internal boundaries of Canada have changed.