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Great Depression in Canada | Detailed article about the impact of the worldwide Great Depression of the early 1930s in Canada | Article to be created | ||||
Habitation de Québec | Settlement founded by Samuel de Champlain in 1608 that will become Quebec City | Stub to improve | ||||
Chilcotin War | Confontration in 1864 between members of the Tsilhqotʼin (Chilcotin) Peoples in British Columbia and white road construction workers | Article to be created | ||||
Battle of the Belly River | Last major conflict between the Cree and the Blackfoot, and the last major battle between First Nations on Canadian soil | Stub to improve | Article to be created | |||
Battle of Cran (also known as Battle of Stoney Creek) | Battle during the Seven Years' War in Acadia | Article to be created | ||||
Battle of Chippawa | Battle during the War of 1812 in Upper Canada | Stub to improve | ||||
March West | Initial journey of the North-West Mounted Police to the Canadian Prairies between 8 July and 9 October 1874 | Article to be created | ||||
British Columbia gold rushes | Gold rushes in British Columbia | Stub to improve | Article to be created | |||
Canada in the Korean War | Canadian participation in the Koran War | Article to be created | ||||
North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 | One of the worst floods in the history of Edmonton | Stub to improve | Article to be created | |||
Great Fire of 1892 | Fire in St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador on 8 July 1892 | Add references | Article to be created | |||
Memorial Day (Newfoundland and Labrador) | Memorial day observed annually since 1 July 1917 in Newfoundland and Labrador to recall the losses of the 1st Newfoundland Regiment at the Battle of Albert during the First World War | Article to be created | ||||
William Davis Miners' Memorial Day | Annual remembrance day in Nova Scotia to recognize all miners killed in the province's coal mines | Article to be created | Men in the Mines: A History of Mining Activity in Nova Scotia, 1720-1992 from Nova Scotia Archives Miners Memorial Day: Davis Day from Nova Scotia Museum of Industry |
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Operation Snowgoose | Canadian involvement in the UN peacekeeping mission in Cyprus established in 1964 | Article to be created | ||||
Battle of Long Sault | Battle during the Beaver Wars in early May 1660 between the French colonial militia with their Huron and Algonquin allies against the Iroquois Confederacy | Add references | ||||
1918 Quebec City riots | Riots in Quebec City against the conscription in 1918 | Article to be created | ||||
Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1632) | Treaty signed in 1632 by which the English returned the control of New France to the French after seizing it in 1629 | Stub to improve, and add references | Stub to improve | |||
Battle of Vimy Ridge | Battle during the First World War in France involving four divisions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force | Add references | ||||
Nunavut Day | Public holiday in Nunavut celebrating the passing of the Nunavut Act by the Parliament of Canada July 9, 1993 | Article to be created | ||||
Battle of Montgomery's Tavern | Battle in Toronto during the Upper Canada Rebellion in December 1837 | Article to be created | ||||
Affari vos | Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII published in 1897 about the issue of the schools in Manitoba | Article to be created | Stub to improve | |||
Fire of Montreal Metro | Fire in Montreal Metro in 1971 | Article to be created | ||||
Battle of York | Battle during the War of 1812 in Upper Canada | Stub to improve | ||||
Somalia affair | Canadian military scandal in Somalia in 1993 | Article to be created | ||||
Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal | Political scandal in Alberta in 1910 | Article to be created | ||||
Munsinger affair | Canada's first national political sex scandal in 1966 | Needs improvement | Article to be created | |||
2018 British Columbia wildfires | Wilfires in British Columbia in 2018 | Needs improvement | Article to be created | |||
Act of Union 1840 | Law adopted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1840 abolishing the legislative assemblies of Lower Canada and Upper Canada, and creating a single colony, the Province of Canada | Add references | ||||
Battle of Lundy's Lane | Battle during the War of 1812 | Stub to improve |
Historic organizations
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Newfoundland Railway | Railway company on the island of Newfoundland that operated from 1898 to 1988 | Add references | Article to be created | |||
Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland | Government-owned public radio service of the dominion of Newfoundland launched in 1939 and absorbed into CBC in 1949 | Article to be created | ||||
Canadian Machine Gun Corps | Administrative corps of the Canadian Army active from 1917 to 1923 | Stub to improve | Article to be created | |||
Midland Railway of Canada | Railway which ran from Port Hope to Midland in Ontario | Article to be created | ||||
Air Defence Command | Command of the Royal Canadian Air Force and later the Canadian Armed Forces active from 1951 to 1975 | Stub to improve | Article to be created | |||
Canadian Forces Air Transport Command | Command of the Canadian Forces active from 1968 to 1975 | Stub to improve, and add references | Article to be created | |||
Royal Canadian Naval Air Service | Established during World War I | Stub to improvre | Article to be created |
Historic places
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Mohawk Chapel | The oldest church building in Ontario, national historic site of Canada | Article to be created | ||||
The Bog, Charlottetown | Former neighbourhood in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island settled in the early 19th century by Black slaves | Stub to improve | Article to be created | The Canadian Encyclopedia | ||
Fort Whoop-Up | Trading post in Alberta | Article to be created |
Historical figures
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William Davis | Miner from Cape Breton Island killed in 1925 during the miners' strike | Stub to improve, and add references | Article to be created | ||||
Pamphile Le May | Novelist, poet, storyteller, translator and librarian from Quebec who became the first librarian of the National Assembly of Quebec in 1867 | Article to be created | |||||
Lincoln Alexander | First Black Canadian elected as Member of Parliament | Stub to improve | |||||
James Creighton | Canadian lawyer, engineer, journalist and athlete, person of national historic significance, who organized the first recorded indoor ice hockey match at Montreal, Quebec in 1875 | Add references | Article to be created | ||||
Desmond Piers | Rear-admiral of the Royal Canadian Navy decorated of the Légion d'Honneur and the Distinguished Service Cross | Article to be created | |||||
Frederick William Campbell | Canadian military officer, recipient of the Victoria Cross | Stub to improve | Article to be created | ||||
Rey Pagtakhan | First Filipino Canadian elected to the House of Commons | Article to be created | |||||
Olivier-Maximin Melanson | Politician and farmer from New Brunswick, one of the first members of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly to give speeches in French | Stub to improve | Dictionary of Canadian Biography | ||||
William Mactavish | Scottish-born representative of Hudson's Bay Company and governor of Assiniboia and Rupert's Land before their transfer to the government of Canada | Stub to improve | Dictionary of Canadian Biography | ||||
Pontiac (Ottawa leader) (or Obwandiyag) | Odawa war chief known for his role in the Pontiac's War (named after him) from 1763 to 1766 leading First Nations in a struggle against British military occupation of the Great Lakes region | Add references | |||||
Charles Henry Byce | The most decorated Indigenous soldier in Canada during World War II | Article to be created | The Canadian Encyclopedia | ||||
Thelma Chalifoux | The first Indigenous woman and first Métis person to be appointed to the Senate of Canada | Stub to improve | The Canadian Encyclopedia | ||||
James Gladstone | The first status Indian to be appointed to the Senate of Canada | Article to be created | |||||
Andrew Delisle Sr. | Chief of Kahnawake in Quebec and first Indigenous to receive the Order of Canada in 1969 | Article to be created | |||||
Fred Loft | Mohawk activist who founded the League of Indians of Canada and veteran of World War I | Article to be created | |||||
Renaude Lapointe | Journalist and Senator, the first French-Canadian woman to preside over the Senate | Stub to improve | Add references | ||||
Louis-Pierre Gravel | Missionary and colonizer, founder of Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan, person of national historic significance | Stub to improve | Article to be created | ||||
Charles Aubert de La Chesnaye | The richest businessman of New France, played an important role in the economic development of the colony, person of national historic significance | Stub to improve | Needs improvement | ||||
Frederick Carter | Premier of Newfoundland from 1865 to 1870 and 1874 to 1878, Father of Canadian Confederation, person of national historic significance | Article to be created | |||||
Rose Fortune | Born from slave parents fleeing from the United States, first woman to be a police officer in North America, person of national historic significance | Article to be created | |||||
Vincent Massey | Governor General of Canada from 1952 to 1959, the first to be born in Canada | Stub to improve | |||||
Robert Bond | The first premier of the colony of the Dominion of Newfoundland from 1907 to 1909, person of national historic significance | Article to be created | |||||
Molly Reilly | First female Canadian pilot to reach the rank of captain, the first female Canadian corporate pilot, and the first woman to fly to the Arctic professionally} | Article to be created | |||||
Adelaide Hoodless | Educational reformer, founder of the Women's Institute, person of national historic significance | Add references | Article to be created | ||||
Catherine Callbeck | First women to be elected premier of a Canadian province during a general election | Add references | |||||
Josiah Henson | Born as a slave in the United Stated, fleed in Upper Canada, founded a colony and a school for other fleeing slaves, person of national historic significance | Stub to improve | |||||
John Hamilton Gray | Politician, Father of Canadian Confederation, Premier of Prince Edward Island, person of national historic significance | Stub to improve | Stub to improve | ||||
Pierre Gaultier de La Vérendrye | One of the first French Canadian explorer of Western Canada, person of national historical significance | Stub to improve | Stub to improve | ||||
Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie | Pioneer of the feminist movement in Quebec, person of national historic significance | Add references | |||||
Alphonse Desjardins | Founder of Caisses populaires Desjardins, person of national historic significance | Add references | |||||
George Exton Lloyd | Anglican bishop and theologian who helped found Lloydminster, a city on the border of Alberta and Saskatchewan, person of national historic significance | Article to be created | |||||
Andrew Archibald Macdonald | Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island from 1884 to 1889, father of Canadian Confederation, person of national historical significance | Article to be created | |||||
William Lyon Mackenzie | First mayor of Toronto, known for his leading role in the Upper Canada Rebellion in 1837, person of national historic significance | Add references | |||||
Allan MacNab | Premier of the Province of Canada from 1854 to 1856, person of national historic significance | Stub to improve | |||||
Jonathan McCully | Journalist, judge and senator, father of the Canadian Confederation, person of national historic significance | Stub to improve | Stub to improve | ||||
William McDougall | Lawyer and politician, father of Canadian Confederation, person of national historic significance | Stub to improve | |||||
Louise McKinney | Politician and feminist activist in Alberta, first woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, first woman to be elected to a legislature in Canada and in the whole British Empire, person of national historic significance | Stub to improve | |||||
Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck | Last governor of British North America and first governor general of Canada, person of national historic significance | Add references | Stub to improve | ||||
Adrien-Gabriel Morice | Priest, missionary and religious of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate and linguist who developed a writing system for the Dakelh (or Carrier) language, person of national historical significance | Add references | |||||
Alexander Morris | Canadian politician, second Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, founder and first Lieutenant Governor of the District of Keewatin, person of national historic significance | Stub to improve, and add references | |||||
Oliver Mowat | Canadian politician, third premier of Ontario from 1872 to 1896, longest tenure as premier of Ontario, lieutenant governor of Ontario from 1897 to 1903, father of the Canadian Confederation, person of national historic significance | Add references | |||||
Leonard W. Murray | Admiral of the Royal Canadian Navy who played a significant role in the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II, the only Canadian to command an Alliad theatre of operating during a world war, person of national historic significance | Article to be created | |||||
John Norquay | Metis politician, premier of Manitoba from 1878 to 1887, the first premier of Manitoba to have been born in the region, person of national historic significance | Add references | Stub to improve | ||||
Edward Palmer | Premier of Prince Edward Island, father of Canadian Confederation, person of national historic significance | Stub to improve | |||||
Albert Lacombe | Catholic missionary in Western Canada, evangelized First Nations, known to have negotiated peace agreements between the Crees and the Blackfoot, person of national historic significance | Add references | |||||
Lester B. Pearson | Prime minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968, person of national historic significance | Add references | |||||
Pîhtokahanapiwiyin (or Poundmaker) | Plains Cree chief, person of national historical significance | Stub to improve | Dictionary of Canadian Biography | ||||
William Henry Pope | Lawyer, politician, editor and judge from Prince Edward Island, father of the Canadian Confederation, person of national historic significance | Stub to improve | Stub to improve | ||||
Richard Preston | Religious leader and abolitionist, escaped slavery from the United States to Nova Scotia, leader of the African Nova Scotian community, founder of a Bapstist Church and abolitionist organizations, person of national historic significance | Article to be created | |||||
Marcel-François Richard | Catholic priest and pedagogue, played a key role in the development of the Acadian nation, person of national historic significance | Article to be created | Stub to improve | ||||
John William Ritchie | Lawyer and politician from Nova Scotia, father of the Canadian Confederation, person of national historic significance | Stub to improve | Article to be created | ||||
Joseph-Noël Ritchot | Catholic priest known for his role in negotiating with the Government of Canada on behalf of the Métis during the Red River Resistance of 1869 and 1870, person of national historic significance | Article to be created | |||||
John Robson | Premier of British Columbia from 1889 to 1892, founded the first newspaper of British Columbia, person of national historic significance | Stub to improve | |||||
Ambrose Shea | Political figure from Newfoundland, father of Canadian confederation, person of national historic significance | Add references | Article to be created | ||||
Joey Smallwood | Political figure from Newfoundland, the main force behind the integration of Newfoundland in the Canadian confederation in 1949 and the first premier of the province from 1949 to 1972, person of national historic significance | Add references | Stub to improve | ||||
Chloe Cooley | Young black woman held as a slave in Upper Canada whose owner forced her into a board to sell her in 1793 in the United States, the incident is believed to have led to the passage of the Act Against Slavery in 1793 in Upper Canada, person of national historic significance | Article to be created | |||||
William Henry Steeves | Merchant and politician, father of the Canadian confederation, person of national historic significance | Stub to improve | |||||
John Strachan | First Anglican bishop of Toronto, influential political figure of Upper Canada, founder of King's College, person of national historic significance | Stub to improve | |||||
Alexandre-Antonin Taché | Catholic priest and missionary of the Oblate order, first archsbishop of Saint Boniface in Manitoba, person of national historic significance | Add references | |||||
Michael Anthony Fleming | Friar Minor priest from Ireland, bishop of the Diocese of St John's in the Colony of Newfoundland, person of national historic significance | Add references | |||||
Albert Goodwin | Migrant coal miner who advocated for workers' rights and promoted the cause of unions in British Columbia | Article to be created |
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- The article Persons of National Historic Significance includes a list of people designated by the Government of Canada as being nationally significant in the history of the country. Several articles of this list require improvements, such as adding citations for verification. Also, many of those articles don't exist on the Wikipedia in French. If you speak French, you can create them by translating the articles in English.
- The article List of Canadian Victoria Cross recipients gives a list of the Canadian people who received the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy of the British and Commonwealth forces. Many of those people don't have articles on the Wikipedia in French. If you speak French, you can create them by translating the articles in English.
Resources
[edit]Online resources
[edit]- Dictionary of Canadian Biography
- The Canadian Encyclopedia
- Historica Canada
- Canada's History
- History of Canada by Canadian Heritage
- Canadian military history by Canadian Heritage
Bibliographies
[edit]- Bibliography of Canada on English Wikipedia
- Bibliography of Canadian history on English Wikipedia