Unify Action - July 01, 2025


These Canadians Fail Their Own History!!

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Sarah Dotzert
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John A. Macdonald Georges-Étienne Cartier Samuel Tilley Lester Pearson Richard Beasley Charles Tupper George Brown Trudeau
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5 minutes

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177.45

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921

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66

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In honour of Canada s 158th birthday, we re talking about the history of Canada and how it came to be a country. We re also talking about stolen land, the Underground Railroad, and why we re on stolen land.

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00:00:00.000 Canada's 158th birthday is finally here, but one thing people don't think about during a hectic
00:00:05.300 holiday like this is the history of Canada and the amazing things that culminated to create
00:00:10.140 such a great nation like ours. When was Canada founded? Um, 1852. Well, I know we had 150 years
00:00:18.520 a few years ago. 1967. When was Canada founded? Was that 150 years ago or something? When it
00:00:26.000 became a country. It was 1867. Who was our first prime minister? I know it's not Lester v. Pearson,
00:00:32.460 but that's like one of the only ones that I know. This is so bad. I should know this.
00:00:37.980 You're gonna have to tell me. Nope. Nope. I don't know that one. Um, Sir John A. MacDonald. John A.
00:00:45.540 MacDonald. John A. MacDonald. What was Canada called before it was Canada? Was it Canada? New
00:00:53.420 England or New Britain or something? I want to say New England. Yeah. It was something like 0.96
00:00:57.960 British North America or Upper Canada? Quebec. Upper and Lower Canada. British North America.
00:01:06.660 Was it like Canada or something? New France. Who were the Fathers of Confederation? Fathers of 0.85
00:01:13.520 Confederation? Was one of them Trudeau? Was John A. Macdonald one of them? Was there like
00:01:19.040 Cartier, is he one?
00:01:22.020 Are they the ones that signed the British North America Act?
00:01:25.440 Was John A. MacDonald one of them?
00:01:27.360 Fathers of Confederation were the founders of Canada.
00:01:30.000 There were four provinces at the time, and they took them all together and made it to Canada.
00:01:32.680 It would be Sir John A. MacDonald, George Brown, and Georges-Étienne Cartier, Charles Tupper, Samuel Leonard Tilly.
00:01:39.860 So those were like the five really big ones, and then there were others as well.
00:01:42.760 Who were the Loyalists?
00:01:45.060 Oh, oh, ah.
00:01:47.520 Loyalists.
00:01:48.000 Oh, you mean from the states?
00:01:50.660 Right.
00:01:51.520 The people who, like from Quebec?
00:01:54.400 During the American War of Independence, there was a large group of people who were not for the American cause.
00:02:00.000 So they were still loyal to the British crown.
00:02:01.860 They either fought for Britain or sympathized with Britain.
00:02:05.920 When the war ended, a lot of their property was confiscated in the United States because they were considered sympathizers to the enemy.
00:02:12.500 They actually were granted free land up here in southern Ontario.
00:02:15.340 By the time 1812 rolled around, about half of Canada's English-speaking population was actually of Loyalist descent.
00:02:21.780 What was the Underground Railroad?
00:02:23.760 It's one of the major things that we're known for, for the building and the mining,
00:02:27.620 but I believe it was a radical movement to bring safety for people passing through.
00:02:32.640 Underground Railroad? Is that the railroad that went across Canada?
00:02:40.660 Wasn't it what they used to help smuggle things across from, I think it was people, from the states to Canada?
00:02:49.520 Oh, that was to bring slaves from basically the south up here. 0.62
00:02:53.040 From the states to Canada. 0.74
00:02:54.040 Yeah.
00:02:54.280 Was it for slaves? 0.72
00:02:56.120 They helped escaped slaves come to Canada.
00:02:58.800 And because of the fugitive slave law in the States, slave owners could go from slave states to non-slave states to recapture their slaves.
00:03:06.400 So these slaves had to be brought to Canada before they were totally safe.
00:03:11.020 So that network was called the Underground Railroad.
00:03:14.240 Here's an interesting one.
00:03:15.840 Are we on stolen land?
00:03:17.480 Yes.
00:03:18.240 Yes.
00:03:18.740 Yes.
00:03:19.380 Yes.
00:03:20.140 Probably.
00:03:21.320 Technically, yes.
00:03:22.480 Yes.
00:03:23.480 Kind of what we hear all the time is that we're on stolen land,
00:03:25.840 and we should be very remorseful about that.
00:03:27.720 Back when Canada was being divvied up for settlement,
00:03:29.720 before it actually became a country,
00:03:31.240 six blocks of land were granted to the six nations in this area,
00:03:35.120 and Waterloo Region was one of them.
00:03:36.840 But in 1798, it was purchased from the Six Nations
00:03:41.160 by a man named Richard Beasley.
00:03:43.340 So it wasn't actually stolen, it was purchased.
00:03:46.500 And I'm pretty sure that was the case
00:03:48.100 for the rest of the six blocks of land
00:03:49.840 that the Six Nations had in this area.
00:03:51.980 The narrative that we're all on stolen land
00:03:54.200 is not always true.
00:03:56.220 That case, like the case of purchasing land
00:03:58.840 from the Six Nations and other indigenous peoples
00:04:01.240 is actually quite common.
00:04:02.680 if you go and read back talks about the peoples that they purchased their land from
00:04:07.400 and different companies would purchase the land at like wholesale price and then divvy it up to
00:04:12.780 pioneers and settlers that's pretty interesting i didn't know that no that would be the first time
00:04:16.860 i've ever heard of like it being bought and actually like someone having the rights to it
00:04:22.800 it's not all stolen so there's this narrative that we hear and we're like oh we're sorry for
00:04:28.060 who we are because we're Canadian we're on stolen land but I personally think we need to yes
00:04:33.340 acknowledge history but it's not all like that it's not all bad Canada is actually a really cool
00:04:39.260 country we did some really cool things and the slaves in the United States their slaveholders
00:04:45.680 prevented them from getting educated because they knew that when they learned things they would be
00:04:50.080 much more powerful human beings in Canada we need to be more educated about our history so that we're
00:04:54.620 much more powerful force there you have it guys canadians simply don't know about their country
00:04:59.820 and the things that created such a great nation like canada if you like this video please hit
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