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Joseph Smallwood Signs Confederation Agreement, 11 Dec. 1948 and becomes Newfoundland's first premier.

Atlantic Canada
by Ernest Forbes

The 1980 Quebec sovereignty referendum became a battle between two skillful politicians, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Quebec premier René Lévesque, cartoon by Aislin

Quebec
by Jean-Claude Robert

By the end of the war, some 35,000 women worked in munitions factories in Quebec and Ontario, like this one in Renfrew, Ontario

Ontario
by P.E. Bryden

Prime Minister John A. Macdonald's government granted the CPR $25 million, generous land allotments of 25 million acres along the main line, and a 20-year monopoly. Province like Manitoba, depicted here, tried to overturn the CPR's privileges.

Prairies
by John Herd Thompson

Starting in the late 1850s, Chinese men, like this one, worked in many of the resource industries of British Columbia

British Columbia
by John Douglas Belshaw

Traditional Inuit culture was undermined in classrooms like this one, and young children were trapped between two cultures.

North
by William R. Morrison

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by canadianhistory.kinsta.cloud

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