Author: Darrel Pratt

What Is The Biggest Environmental Threat To Lake Winnipeg?

Increasing occurrence and severity of spring flooding associated with climate change has become the major threat to Lake Winnipeg. What is Killing Lake Winnipeg? This program reveals how a perfect storm of agriculture, hydro practices, sewage run-off, flooding, and marsh destruction have devastated Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the 10th largest lake in the world. Lake […]

What Did Catholic Church Do In Canada?

The Catholic church’s role in residential schools The Catholic church operated about 70% of residential schools in Canada, before the government took control of them in 1969. The last residential school shut in the 1990s. What did the Catholic Church do to the Indigenous peoples in Canada? In total, 150,000 children from Canada’s First Nations […]

What Is The Delf In Canada?

Diplôme d’Etudes en Langue Française. What is the DELF? The DELF (Diplôme d’Etudes en Langue Française) is an official qualification awarded by the French Ministry of Education to test and certify the French-language skills of candidates whose mother tongue is not French. Does Canada recognize DELF? The DELF-DALF exams are offered and recognized in every […]

When Did The Yukon Join Canada?

1898. ​Yukon entered Confederation in 1898, after a gold rush boom led Canada to create a second northern territory out of the Northwest Territories (NWT). When did Yukon Territory become part of Canada? In 1870, the Government of Canada acquired the territory from the Hudson’s Bay Company and the entire region became known as the […]

Which Was The Last Province To Enter The Confederation Of Canada In 1949?

Newfoundland and Labrador. The four provinces which first formed Confederation were Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. In 1949 the last province to join Canada was Newfoundland and Labrador. What province joined the Canadian federation in 1949? NewfoundlandIn 1864, Newfoundland delegates attended the Quebec Conference and signed the resolutions which became of foundation of […]

What Province Was Known As Lower Canada?

Province of Quebec. The Province of Lower Canada was created by the Constitutional Act 1791 from the partition of the British colony of the Province of Quebec (1763–1791) into the Province of Lower Canada and the Province of Upper Canada. Lower Canada. Province of Lower Canada Province du Bas-Canada (French) Currency Canadian pound What provinces […]

Who Are Canada’S First Founding People?

The founding peoples of Canada include: Aboriginal peoples. French Canadians. Who were Canada’s 3 founding groups of people? Canada has three founding peoples – The Indigenous Peoples, French and British. Where did Canada’s first founding people come from? Precontact aboriginal history North America’s first humans migrated from Asia, presumably over a now-submerged land bridge from […]