. A history of Canada for high schools and academies. ritories obtain responsible government. 1890. Separate schools abolished in Manitoba. 1891. Ministry of Sir John A. Macdonald again John A. Macdonald died. Sir John Abbott becomes premier. 1892. Hon. Alexander Mackenzie died. Sir John Thompson becomes premier. 1893. The Behring Sea Tribunal. 1894. Sir John Thompson died. xxil IMPORTANT DATES. Sir Mackenzie Bowell becomes Conference at Ottawa. 1896. Sir Charles Tupper becomes premier, but is defeated at general elections, and Sir Wilfrid Laurier becomes premier
. A history of Canada for high schools and academies. ritories obtain responsible government. 1890. Separate schools abolished in Manitoba. 1891. Ministry of Sir John A. Macdonald again John A. Macdonald died. Sir John Abbott becomes premier. 1892. Hon. Alexander Mackenzie died. Sir John Thompson becomes premier. 1893. The Behring Sea Tribunal. 1894. Sir John Thompson died. xxil IMPORTANT DATES. Sir Mackenzie Bowell becomes Conference at Ottawa. 1896. Sir Charles Tupper becomes premier, but is defeated at general elections, and Sir Wilfrid Laurier becomes premier. 1897. Queen Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee. 1898. Imperial Penny Postage established. 1899. Two-cent postal rate goes into force in The Boer War. 1900. Government of Sir Wilfrid Laurier sustained at the general elections. 1901. King Edward VII ascends the throne. 1902. Conference of colonial premiers at of the all-British cable. 1903. The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Alaskan Boundary A HISTORY OF CANADA. oJOic FIRST PERIOD. FRENCH DOMINION: —THE STRUGGLE FOR NEWWORLD EMPIRE. CHAPTER I. SECTIONS: — i. Introductory. 2, the Northmen. 3, Colum-bus. 4, THE Cabots, and Verkazzano. 5, Cartiers FirstVoyage. 6, Cartiers Second Voyage. 7, Cartiers ThirdVoyage, and de Roberval. I. Introductory. —The stage on which the drama of CanadianHistory unfolds may seem to the world an obscure one. A closerview, however, will reveal that on this stage some of the gravestproblems of history have been pressed to a solution; and we mayreasonably expect to find in this drama an answer to some of theweightiest questions of modern politics. Battles were fought onthe Rhine, the Elbe, the Danube; German, Austrian, Spanishthrones were shaken to their fall; navies grappled in Canadianthe Caribbean, and Mahratta hordes were slaughtered ?efati(mtotheon the rice-fields of India, to decide the struggle which ^°^^^-ended only upon the Plain
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