1. Billy Wright
There are many events in Canadian history that have contributed to the changes in Canada over time. Some of the significant events that are believed to have contributed to the changes in Canada are The Battle of Vimy Ridge, The Statute of Westminster, and The Immigration Boom. Therefore, these event...
What won the politicians to the idea of an anti-British war were the prizes that a victory would bring: 1) Bringing Canada into the union, long an ambition of the northeastern elite. 2) Forcing the Indians in the west, who had formed a separate peace with the British, to submit to American authorities that wanted to expand the frontier. The War accomplished neither of these objectives nor did it settle the matter of impressments of sailors and neutral rights, neither of these issues was even mentioned in the peace treaty of Ghent. ... I leave you with a quote I found and the brutality of w...
THE LOST BRITISH IDENTITY Britain had always been the land of opportunities, prospect and welfare. At least, that is how the most emigrants who wanted to come to the island had seen it. The country separated from the rest of the continent always seemed as a promised land for everyone who se...
(Chapter 1) Here Foster is saying that hopefully one day the English men and the Indian can come to peace and make friends and then everything will settle itself just like the climates and season do on the earth. ... In this manner, Foster ends A Passage To India as a tragic but platonic love story between the two friends, separated by different cultures and political climates. ...
The Great Starvation of Ireland I. The starvation in Ireland: 1845-1852 Over the years, the people of Ireland have suffered many hardships, but none compare to the devastation brought by the Irish potato famine of 1845-1857. A poorly managed nation together with ideally wicked weather condit...