These Canadians Fail Their Own History!!
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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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Canada's 158th birthday is finally here, but one thing people don't think about during a hectic
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holiday like this is the history of Canada and the amazing things that culminated to create
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such a great nation like ours. When was Canada founded? Um, 1852. Well, I know we had 150 years
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a few years ago. 1967. When was Canada founded? Was that 150 years ago or something? When it
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became a country. It was 1867. Who was our first prime minister? I know it's not Lester v. Pearson,
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but that's like one of the only ones that I know. This is so bad. I should know this.
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You're gonna have to tell me. Nope. Nope. I don't know that one. Um, Sir John A. MacDonald. John A.
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MacDonald. John A. MacDonald. What was Canada called before it was Canada? Was it Canada? New
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England or New Britain or something? I want to say New England. Yeah. It was something like
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British North America or Upper Canada? Quebec. Upper and Lower Canada. British North America.
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Was it like Canada or something? New France. Who were the Fathers of Confederation? Fathers of
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Confederation? Was one of them Trudeau? Was John A. Macdonald one of them? Was there like
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Are they the ones that signed the British North America Act?
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Fathers of Confederation were the founders of Canada.
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There were four provinces at the time, and they took them all together and made it to Canada.
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It would be Sir John A. MacDonald, George Brown, and Georges-Étienne Cartier, Charles Tupper, Samuel Leonard Tilly.
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So those were like the five really big ones, and then there were others as well.
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During the American War of Independence, there was a large group of people who were not for the American cause.
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They either fought for Britain or sympathized with Britain.
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When the war ended, a lot of their property was confiscated in the United States because they were considered sympathizers to the enemy.
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They actually were granted free land up here in southern Ontario.
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By the time 1812 rolled around, about half of Canada's English-speaking population was actually of Loyalist descent.
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It's one of the major things that we're known for, for the building and the mining,
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but I believe it was a radical movement to bring safety for people passing through.
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Underground Railroad? Is that the railroad that went across Canada?
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Wasn't it what they used to help smuggle things across from, I think it was people, from the states to Canada?
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Oh, that was to bring slaves from basically the south up here.
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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.
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So these slaves had to be brought to Canada before they were totally safe.
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So that network was called the Underground Railroad.
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Kind of what we hear all the time is that we're on stolen land,
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Back when Canada was being divvied up for settlement,
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six blocks of land were granted to the six nations in this area,
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But in 1798, it was purchased from the Six Nations
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So it wasn't actually stolen, it was purchased.
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from the Six Nations and other indigenous peoples
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if you go and read back talks about the peoples that they purchased their land from
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and different companies would purchase the land at like wholesale price and then divvy it up to
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pioneers and settlers that's pretty interesting i didn't know that no that would be the first time
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i've ever heard of like it being bought and actually like someone having the rights to it
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it's not all stolen so there's this narrative that we hear and we're like oh we're sorry for
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who we are because we're Canadian we're on stolen land but I personally think we need to yes
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acknowledge history but it's not all like that it's not all bad Canada is actually a really cool
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country we did some really cool things and the slaves in the United States their slaveholders
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prevented them from getting educated because they knew that when they learned things they would be
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much more powerful human beings in Canada we need to be more educated about our history so that we're
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much more powerful force there you have it guys canadians simply don't know about their country
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and the things that created such a great nation like canada if you like this video please hit
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