Ever since the discovery of the New World, black people have lived in Canada and have not been treated fairly. ... He arrived in New France in 1628 and was sold to a colonist. ... Most of the new refugees were poor and were not able to find any work. ... After the British took over New France, they split it into two territories in 1791, Upper Canada and Lower Canada. ... This happened because Colonel John Graves Simcoe was Upper Canada's first lieutenant governor and he wanted to pass a law to ban slavery. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Businesses in labor-intensive industries charged that the Industrial Workers of the World and socialist organizations were undermining the economy. ... That this consensus view as generally correct is supported by the facts that first the most important demands of labor and social activists made during the strike have been recognized and passed into law by the government, and second the political successor, the New Democratic Party, to the forces behind the Winnipeg General Strike has emerged as a political force in Canada. In the aftermath of WWI, Canadian Prime Minister Robert Border (Tor...

• Word Count: 2998
• Approx Pages: 12
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate