Many people(especially Canadians) have commented about the use of the word "Eskimo" on the map. It has a much more controversial historical context in Canadian history, compared to its usage in Alaska and the continental United States; that I did not know about. This appears to be significantly due to the fact that the Canadian government issued "Eskimo tags" which had a number instead of the bearer's name that was used for official purposes. I would be interested to read anyone's experiences or knowledge on this topic to give further context. The word Inuit simply means people, while the etymology of Eskimo is unconfirmed according to the below article. In my opinion, the word "Eskimo" is not inherently inappropriate-However given it's historical context especially in Canada it harkens back to when it has been used in a bigoted context. I would be especially interested to read any opinions from any Inuit/indigenous Arctic people and thier opinions on the term. Below are two articles that someone has posted in the comments that you can read to get more context on this issue. www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/04/24/475129558/why-you-probably-shouldnt-say-eskimo www.vice.com/en_ca/article/xd7ka4/the-little-known-history-of-how-the-canadian-government-made-inuit-wear-eskimo-tags
People will find anything to cry about now days. They will even attempt to change or mute history to accommodate their butt-hurt. If this offends you then good. History is not meant to be pleasant at all times but present the facts as we know them today.
Hellk Epimetheus first i would like to thank you for all this history videos. Can you please do a documentary about history of Albanian explained in 10min? Albanian language is the 1st Indoeuropian Language than Armanian than Greece .
Decriminalize Darwinism coming from an actual 6’ 5” full blooded Denesuline Native STFU, scumbags like yourself should do actual research first making a fool out of yourself, there are 3 major ethnic groups who make up Canada something this guy on the video forget to mention the 3 major ethnic groups are Natives aka First Nations, Inuits aka Eskimo and Métis aka Mixed Natives with Europeans. Here’s something wannabes don’t know or get. No one says part Native in Canada because there 635 First Nations Tribes and that’s not including Inuits and Metis in fact mixed Natives are their own people they don’t claim to be part of full blood tribes. Because of their European blood. Instead developed a culture and language of their own by mixing their Native and European heritage together....
I'm from the Netherlands and my grandma lived through the second world war. She always told me about our liberation by the Canadians. It led to some of her siblings moving there and she and my mom visited them very often. They even tried to move there themselves. When I was nine, I first went there. A beautiful country, thank you so much for liberating us! Love from the Netherlands
@@raefinn8448 Yes to this day the Dutch remain extremely grateful towards Canadians for giving them their home back. Meanwhile, in France, where millions died taking a land freely given to the enemy without much of any fight, complain when they're joked about how easily they surrender.
My family have been in Canada for a very long time but I have Dutch roots. I have to say that the love we have for the Netherlands is deep. We love the tulips you send us and our relationship will always be strong just as it should be. The love us mutual my friend ♥️🇨🇦
@@drqazlop Probably a mixture of both lol. The word "Indian" is a frowned upon name that is still sometimes used to describe the indigenous peoples of North America. I say frowned upon because said indigenous people do not wish to be called "Indian's", that is just a name the Europeans gave them.
@@yourneighbor2845 haha I know. I appreciate your clarification though. I think many from the US might still be confused as to how name their indigenous people. I don't see how that gives them "balls"
As a Canadien Aboriginal, our country is beautiful. The natural resources here are always fought over and still are today. Not by armies, per say, but big corporations. Being Cree I will always be proud of Canada and gradually how we are trying to reconcile the nations great people. VIVA ABORIGINAL CANDIEN.
The Indigenous nations of this country were brought to near extinction by the hate and arrogance of the European colonialists and the Church, esp the RC Church. 155 years after Confederation countless Indigenous people live in squalor without even drinkable water and access to medical services. We may be beautiful geographically, but we live with a legacy of racism equal to places such as the US and South Africa. The destruction wrought by the residential schools outreached any operated by the Nazis in Germany. As a white Canadian I am ashamed. We need the unvarnished Truth, and actually meaningful Reconciliation past political posturing by vote-seeking politicians who forget their promises on election day. _Every Child Counts_
@@coldlakealta4043 - Yeah, a lot of nasty things were done by a lot of people to a lot of people all over the world always. Even the indigenous nations on the land that is present-day Canada to each other. Let's be crystal clear about all that. The past was brutal everywhere. The Mongol invasions of Europe and Asia wiped out over 10% of the earth's population at the time. No one, nowhere, had it easy. Let's all work towards a better, more enlightened, more universal, future for everyone. Fair and balanced and free. It's a question of raising consciousness, sensibility, getting our hierarchy of values ordered, aligned, blessed. A brutal massacre by a modern army against a defenseless people is happening right now as I write in Gaza. 12,000 children dead and counting. Been going on for months. What are we collectively today doing to stop it? Not much. Is there a spiritual/ aesthetic/ ethical dimension that we can tune into and bring heaven closer to earth or do only mundane finances and resource-capture and armies count? With all the inherent human-all-too-human frailties and mistakes and corruptions over the eons, these are the questions the religions have been grappling with, including the Church and the RC Church. Peace on earth and goodwill towards all mankind.
"The English and the French did not coexist peacefully." That's a great summary of 90% of Anglo-French relations Jeez y'all need to chill with the political nonsense. Apparently I need to spell this out: this is a joke about the frequent wars between the Kingdom of England, later the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Kingdom (Republic or Empire) of France. It has nothing to do with the demographics of Canada, or whatever situation you may feel is in Quebec, besides that the English and French fought over Nouvelle France/Quebec a couple times, a few hundred years ago.
Hated each other from the word go. The only time they seem to agree on something is if someone else tries to join the fight, then they both turn on them before resuming coarse pleasantries.
I was not born in Canada but the life that it made possible for me to create is something I would die and defend for. This is the greatest country in the world.
Just a comment to educate any viewers interested: Micmac is actually spelled Mi'kmaq and is pronounced "Mig-maw". Additionally, us Mi'kmaq traditionally referred to ourselves as L'nu, meaning people of the tongue or language. Our traditional territory of Mi'kma'ki actually covers all of the Atlantic provinces, up to the Gaspe région of Quebec, as well as a portion of Maine.
Went to school in the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia, before any class we'd have to acknowledge where the land came from (the mi'kmaq peoples). Admittedly it was a little silly considering we're just acknowledging the fact the land was unjustly taken from the original owners. Then again, Acadia seems to pride itself on making dumb decisions lol
Nicely put together in just 10 minutes. As much as my mother and father were born here, I happened to be born in the UK, and never really got a good lesson on the history of Canada. This was very enlightening, and I'm proud to be a citizen of Canada for the last 22 years. I'm amazed the country is only 38m in population, as I would have thought most of the world would want to live in this great country. Thanks for the time and effort you put into this quick history lesson.
As a stateless, Canada welcomed me 30 years ago, and I still feel I won a lottery. A brave and beautiful country not afraid to bring people from all over the world, especially refugees. My wonderful adopted country is a model for the world, I would give my life to protect it’s values.
Force For Good Glad that you are with us! i met two young Cubans in ottawa at a supermarket! They said they loved Canada and would give their lives for it!
I remember when I was a kid and my elementrary school teacher asked the class to draw Nunavut into our textbooks when it became officially recognized 😍
Being American and hearing that most Canadians know More about the Us than we know Canada I wanted to try and understand a bit of their history so thank you.
@@iagreesbut There isn't more to know, it's because the U.S. has a vastly larger population and massive industries for spreading U.S. products and propaganda including film and television around the world
we Americans refer to Canadians as our good friends from the north. i been to Canada several times and I think the Canadians are friendly and great people . all my visits i really enjoyed and been all over Canada. i like the fact that most Canadians don't talk at you from a distance they generally like to get closer the speak . great manors from great people. thank you Canada.
Thank you Canadá for welcoming me 20 years ago, best decision I have ever taken. With gratitude, work everyday and trying to be better people for our son and our community, the way we believe we can pay back for what Canada did for us. Canada is our home.
I hope you share the same sentiment with the Indigenous community - it's like the world seems to leave the Local's out of the conversation for some reason. If it wasn't for the great Numbered Treaty agreements, this home you love would cease to exist.
@Sean Dell when I have had the opportunity I've have done it...I come from a native family from back home and let people know about it...and I have shared with my native Co workers my love and gratitude for them and this country.
@@evastronomy8048 I mean, you had the opportunity in your original comment and I can't seem to find where it's says you feel the same about Indigenous People. Look. It's all good. I am very happy my home is good enough for you to all this place your home. I'm grateful. And I love sharing my home with everyone. What hurts me is people don't share with us. They don't share their love for us. They don't share their gratitude with us. We are almost always left out of the conversation. Take care, friend. I am happy you love this place and I hope more of your family moves here and becomes my family. Because that's what you are to me - you're my family. Kisâkihitin.
@Sean Dell it is sad that some people come here and expect everything for granted...and even worst, they want to impose their bad habits and rules and disrespect or don't care about the law and the responsibilities en Canada....I am feel very bad for that...and thanks for your comments...I still believe that out there here are more good people than bad ones...
As an American I feel like America takes Mexico and Canada for granted. Y’all are like our brothers. Como estadounidense, siento que Estados Unidos da por sentado a México y Canadá. Todos ustedes son como nuestros hermanos.
i wish america didn't steal cali from mexico i hope we become are own thing but also don't know if it would be a good idea if cali split even tho trump is bad i don't know if splitting is a very good idea
@@altela1597 "...Most of us are still huddled tight to the border, looking into the candy store window, scared by the Americans on one side, and the bush on the other".... Canadian writer Mordechai Richler in 1989
The Viking Village mentioned at the beginning of the video was inhabited for about 10 years. It was established as a staging grounds to gather material from the other maritime provinces. Abandon because tension with the local Beothuk people, and supply lines. I been to the site a couples times in l'anse meadows, so cool there. A must see on the west coast of the island!
@carole t no it is true the indiginious people most likely traveled here when Russia was still connected to alaska a long long time before any of us called it home.
I heard these people actually discovered a time travel portal where they were settled and when the realized the danger it would bring to humanity, they destroyed the portal and abandoned the region.
There are actually 12 Viking settlements in that area. L'anse aux Meadows being the first of 3 on the southern coast of Labrador. 4 settlements on the east coast of Newfoundland's northern peninsula and 5 more located on the east coast of Labrador.
To everyone complaining about things missed: any country’s history in 10 minutes is obviously going to be a bit short of comprehensive. Even Canada’s, though admittedly we might come the closest. We’re pretty boring, but that’s because boring history usually makes for better actual living, as opposed to the Chinese curse ‘may you live in interesting times’. Both the US and UK look mighty interesting at the moment; thank God we aren’t that kind of fun. Anyways, I get pointing out inaccuracies, but coming into a The History of _____ in 10 minutes to list off things missed seems a bit silly.
@@daniellemegaffin6163 I think the one that stuck out more to me for some reason was having Nunavut on the map when talking about Newfoundland joining. Then not referencing the territory being paired off of the NWT a half century later.
@@charlesbernard1236 Some english canadians (not everyone, only a fews) thinks that french canadiens cames in Canada after the english and that they are just some sort of immigrants coalition that want to take over a part of "their" country. There's even politicals groups that are name "french out" or "french get out", that want french canadiens to get out of "their" country and send them back to their "own country"(France). I don't know if these people ever went to school, but i hope not, because when i heard some bullshit like that im scared of what english canadians learn in history class about us.
@@gargouenzene I've never met a single person who thinks that and we are far better off with Quebec. Even if you don't learn French well, it teaches respect for cultures other than your own. My hometown is actually 50% Italian and both Italian and French were taught in my school.
I’m a Mi’kmaq from Nova Scotia. I wouldn’t want to live in any other province but here. What we lack in jobs, health care or hope, we make up for with a life style that’s second to none and a simple beauty and a thousand beaches that fit out coast line. The province I like to visit most is Quebec. I love Montreal but love Quebec City like no other. If I were fluent in French I would love to live there. This video is a very good Cole’s notes version on the history of Canada. But if you come to the east coast, I would pronounce it “new FIN land” and just for the hell of it pronounce scallop “ sk-all- up” not “sk-al-op”. Cheers
In Quebec your french doesn't need to be perfect..., we speak a slangy french, we're not frenchies, are only descendants. I'm a Huron/Wendat by my maternal grandfather.
Is it too much to ask for both? In some ways, we English were the worst, but in many ways we weren't the worst. He mentions the fact that there were two french colonies Louisiana and Quebec are their modern equivalents, but look at Louisiana does anyone there still speak french? no, but here the culture is still thriving. This is the beauty of our nation, america seeks to assimilate and expand, whereas we have always peacefully co-existed. The treatment of the natives in this country is our only shame, a shame that must be corrected if we are to move into a future united.
Whenever i was taught about history.. I was always taught that we are all bad people. But i don't care. It's okay to be proud of your heritage. No matter what the self hating racist/feminist teacher says.
Rene Levesque was the first Parti Quebecois premier, elected on a platform of separating from Canada. He was ideologically opposed to signing a new constitution, and after much effort to persuade him to support bringing the constitution home from England, they finally gave up on him and went ahead and signed it without his consent.
Useful history perspective. I am 7th generation Canadian. Happy and proud to be Canadian. My ancestors arrived from Ireland with a grant of land near Peterborough Ontario. They cleared and settled the land. I grew up on a farm that was a consolidation of several original land grants. I think Ontario is a great place to live. All the provinces and territories have something good to offer. I think BC would be a great place to live. I enjoy the maritime provinces. Canada is a land of tolerance, diversity and opportunity. We need to work to protect our democracy against the trend towards fascism that is advancing in too many EU nations and the US.
>democracy is when left wing commie kneelers control the country with a iron fist and not right wing having a country be peaceful and promote nationality Idiot.
You need to worry about modern threats. Fascism isn't a problem. China is literally breathing down yalls next and Tru-douche isn't doing so good for you guys. That said Canada has some great history as well. Cheers from your commie-hating neighbors in 'Murica🤓🇺🇲
@@weaselwolf8425 Cheers! We are well aligned on a distaste for Communism. I don't want government owning everything. China is a threat to all modern capitalist democracies. No easy answers there I believe. I disagree on fascism. It is IMHO the modern problem of the day. It did not work well for Germany under Hitler. Or for Russia, but they don't recognize it. The current and modern threat is USA. The Trump led MAGA movement which denies and demands dear leader to take indefinite and unrestricted power to rape the country for a privileged few is a threat to democracy and must be taken seriously..
A joke I've heard in Alberta about Saskatchewan goes like this, "Don't live in Saskatchewan, Because if your wife leaves you, you'll see her walking away for two days."
@@bearygoodbeans8169 i'm from alberta, but my dad's family is from biggar, and biggar is my last name, so i stole that sign's joke to talk about my package.
As a Manitoban, I heartily endorse this video. We actually celebrate Louis Real day every February, & there are multiple statues of him around our capitol, Winnipeg. I get the sense that Epimetheus isn't a Canadian, but this is still a decent history summary for me. I've found it quite a challenge to learn my own country's history, compared to how much I've learnt about US history through edutainment. I think Canadians have a lot less pride in our history--& in a way, I'm learning that that's not necessarily a bad thing. I feel like we have been ashamed of parts of our past--our relationships with the indigenous peoples, for example. Too ashamed to look back & try to gloss over it. But unless you want to get into the controversial, & the depressing, you're not going to really learn anything. There is much that's good, too, I think.
For the Canadian flags proposed but didn't make the cut, I like the idea of the second one as it acknowledges both our French and British history/heritage. However, I also love the idea of the third flag where it has the three maple leaves. Glad that they stuck with the one we have now. That's the one I'm used to. Also, you didn't mention that Nunavut was the last territory to confederate to Canada in 1999. However, for a video that summarises Canadian history in ten minutes, you did a great job. Most people will find a point of interest such as Canada during World War I and would just find books or google up the information anyway. Or if interested in information about Confederation, they'd just look that up and would learn about the dates each province and territory joined Canada.
Aucune fierté au Québec d’un héritage anglais. Pour nous l’anglais c’est la domination et l’humiliation. Je n’ai aucun ami anglophone et je n’en veux pas, Je veux vivre 100% en français dans mon seul pays, le Québec. Dès que je vais dans le Canada, je me sens dans un pays étranger du même ordre qu’un anglais arrive en France, complètement différent en presque tout. Dès que je vais aux USA je me sens 10 fois plus mieux accueilli et bienvenue que n’importe où au Canada. Je suis canadien, pas Canadian du tout, par la force, la trahison et la traîtrise. Je n’aime définitivement pas ce pays le Canada. La Canada, pays genocidaire des peuples autochtones avec la loi sur les indiens, toujours en vigueur, loi Canadian dont se sont inspirés le parti nazi en Allemagne et les blancs sud-africain pour concevoir leur régime d’appartheid. La Canada dont la constitution, avec laquelle je me torche, a pour but l’élimination du peuple québécois français avec sa politique multiculturalisme. Une constitution de merde totale avec des juges de cour suprême vendus au fédéral et à laquelle jamais un premier ministre du Québec ne signera. Un pays woke, non nommé Wokistan par hasard, ou on déforme notre langue pour l’inclusion, ou on fait des autodafés ou il y a une police de l’édition.C’est pas pour dire que les québécois sont parfaits, non, il y a tellement de traîtres québécois, de collabos québécois (tous les fédéralistes sans aucune exception), des gens sans âme ni honneur, les solidaires communistes, solidaires de tous sauf de leurs compatriotes. Et puis notre jeunesse meurtrie, blessée, heurtée dans ses sentiments, sans guide ni repère (on décolonise ici) incapable de se mobiliser pour un brin de fierté, d’affirmation. Je suis un apatride chez moi.
@@jbqu3142 Disons que ce que tu dis est ton opinion, cependant ton point de vu n'est pas un fait. La province de Québec est une province du Canada, nous sommes Canadiens tout autant que nous sommes Québécois. Le Canada comme tout autre pays du monde n'est pas tout blanc, mais non plus tout noir. Les temps modernes d'aujourd'hui sont différents. Le racisme, l'esclavagisme ou le non respect des peuples autochtones n'est plus d'actualités. Le français est important et se doit d'être protéger, cependant le Canada, le multiculturalisme et l'anglais ne sont pas ses ennemis. La diversité culturelle est ce qui rend le Canada génial et évolué. La constitution canadienne vise à protégé tous ses citoyens donc aucunement mauvaise. Dire woke comme si c'était péjoratif alors que cela signifie simplement être au courant des injustices sociales et vouloir les combattre. Pour finir, non les Canadiens Français ainsi que les Québécois ne sont pas des traitres, sinon tu insinuerais que 70% des Québécois sont des traitres... Dire fédéralistes alors que c'est simplement faire parti de son pays d'origine qu'est le Canada. Tu devrais plutôt être fier d'être Canadiens ainsi que Québécois, de ton histoire partagé avec tous les canadiens, et de la résilience du français en son sein. Les jeunes ne sont pas meurtris, blessés et encore moins sans repères. Justement ils savent que leur pays est le Canada et ne veulent pas s'engager dans un rêve irréalisable et complètement farfelu qu'est l'indépendance. Tu devrais être de faire partie de l'un des meilleurs pays du monde où il fait bon vivre et où la démocratie règne.
I live in Ontario my dad's family comes from Saskatchewan and as much as I enjoy poking fun at the French my best friend is French and Canada just wouldn't be the same without Quebec I love living here we have a beautiful country to explore
I’ve been to Montreal. I’m a native English speaker who’s fluent in Spanish and French. I was amazed the amount of Spanish speakers I met there. An amazingly multilingual area and I loved it.
I’ve liked the simplicity of the Canadian flag and after seeing the other options I still feel they chose the right design This is just an opinion of somebody from the USA
Mark Pettis Thank you Mark for your nice comment! Well when i travel to other countries they all recognize and love our flag! We are very proud of it and one day we will cut all ties with ?England and become a republic like you did! /the majority of Canadians want a republic. Go on line and see CITIZENS FOR A CANADIAN REPUBLIC for more details!
Ken, I understand the symbolism of the oceans but really I'm not digging the sides being blue. Not that red, white, and blue doesn't go together on flags, they totally do, but not this Canadian flag in particular. Glad they went with red. I do like the red ensign though, our original flag as it shows the country's heritage.
@@kavithathoka3299 Nop, it is only ca or CAN and CAD for money. Caca is really shit in french ... Big FAT LOL here. All countries in the world have 3 letters for abbreviations, so why should we have 4?
I live in on Lake Ontario but I love visiting Quebec. Also, you forgot how Nunavut became its own territory in 1999. You also forgot to mention residential schools
I was born in Montreal, QC but have lived in Victoria, BC for over 50 years. While I do miss my home town and it's unique features I truly love living on Vancouver Island. I am proudly Canadian.
Great TLDR video, it's a bit more complex than that, but yeah it's not really easy to fit in 400 years of history into a 10 minutes while going deep into details, so props to you, you did great job!
@Guru Sandirasegaram The land rightfully belongs to Canada and Australia, what we did to the natives was horrible I will admit, but it all depends on how you view it, everyone displaced local populations and annexed lands at some point, ex. the Zulu's in South Africa drove out many of the local African tribes, they took land through force.
Thanks for the video! I was sitting here and realized I had no clue about Canadian history. This has satisfied my initial curiosity and left me interested to learn more.
Gardenchick18 I said that he founded the city, not that he found it. I know that the indigenous people were already there, I was just pointing out that he founded Quebec City. I was just curious as to why he was not brought up. He could have been an example of how working with the indigenous people helped make Canada what it is today.
LeMAD22 its not a dumb narrative, it’s fact. There is evidence that Vikings discovered Canada before Canada was a place. Before Champlain was ever thought of.
I visited Canada in 2018 and fell in love. The diverse culture and the acceptance of thy diversity. Canadians are wonderful people. I live in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷. I hope to travel again and stay longer. 🤗
It's important to remember that the diversity is empirical or de facto, not definitive. This means that while many different people are present in the country, it's not everyone's country and homeland equally. This is a white, British country by identity, we do not consent to changing that or being replaced, and it's genocidally racist to deny this.
Hey! Just wanted to let you know Ottawa was not initially delegated as the capital of Canada. Instead, Kingston ON was established as the capital in 1841 but Canadian forces realized it was way too close to the American border and moved to Ottawa in 1844.
@@overdose8329 They did transfer it to MTL in 1844 because Kingston was to close to the US. But then, they transfer it to Toronto in 1849 after the English burn down the parliament of Montreal in reaction of the decision to give money to the “Canadians” that were victims of the reprisals by the English militia and army after the rebellions of 1837-38 (The lower Canada rebellion act). After that, from 1859 to 1866 Quebec City was the capital of Canada. Then as u said it, in 1867 Queen Victoria chose Ottawa to be the capital of the Dominion of Canada to accommodate both the “Canadian“ and English request, since Ottawa was a bilingual city and place directly at the border of Quebec and Ontario (Eastern and western Canada at the time)
Great video! For a French Canadian who's lived in the US since he was five, I'm way overdue in learning about my country's history. This video was an excellent first step for me. Thank you.
I'm from Victoria, British Columbia. Born and raised. My mom has british ancestry, and my father has german/blackfoot ancestry.. I'm just so glad they incorporated Vancouver Island into Canada, and didnt exclude us to the U.S.!! 😳😳
@David Scott we are doing great! Kind of a huge population boom and rent raise going on right now, due to how beautiful this city really is; but I'm surviving. 😎
@@zk_c8076 I moved here two years ago and don’t think I will ever leave, from New Brunswick! Fort mcmurray is good for work but not much to do down here lol
As a Canadian, I don't mean to be too correcting, but I would like it if more people in both Canada and The United States refer to their native peoples a "Indigenous" people, not Indians. I know that Colombus thought he landed in India and refered to the natives peoples as "Indian", it's just that in my opinion I don't think we should call them that. Thank you Epimetheus for doing a history video on my beloved nation! ❤
British Columbia is my favourite. 10 mountain ranges, Huge coastline with tons of hidden gems, big ass arid region in the okanogan with beautiful lakes, best skiing in the world, the list goes on. I also love the Alberta rockies and the foothills in Southern Alberta. Basically if you're a mountains or ocean person, I think BC is the best.
I say call myself Newfie it’s shorter eh by? What do you call it? I hear people find Newfie offensive I don’t I like it just wintering I haven’t met someone who finds it offensive. Ay my some people get mad over the stupidest of things.
Learn something new every day, wasn't aware Canada was stretching from quebec to the gulf of mexico, that tripped me out. South part of canada was called lousiana and that explains the french in new orleans, I always wondered about that.
@@SunofYork it’s a lot more silly now, couldn’t leave home or work without some commie green pass for that Covid trash, everyone’s till talking about it on Twitter half a decade later. They arrest you here from defending.yourself from pos woman scammers twice your size trying to kill you with knives, and for letting women in first at the stop, it did NOT END with the natives.
@@Frank-Lee-Speeking la nouvelle France, je sais mon vieux.😂😂 Just wasn’t aware or didn’t remember it went down to the Gulf of Mexico, history class was many decades ago.
The merge between Upper and Lower Canada was an attempt to assimilate the French populations (which obviously did not work) and also to feed the growing economy (debt) of the English side that spent a lot on developping an economy, while in the east, it was more about life in the fields or in the woods
Indeed. Lower Canada had no debt when it was forcefully merged with Upper Canada, which had loads. Upon separating the two, Lower Canada was forced to take on half of Upper Canada's debt.
Back then, as it still should be nowadays, UP was for up river, and DOWN (you’d guess it) was for down river. Made more sense back then since transport was a water way thing much more than a road thing!
Exactly, if I remember correctly, Lower Canada has like 95 000$ of debt while Upper Canada had around 1 000 000$ of debt. When they merged the two territories, they merged the debts two so basically french canadians had to pay for the construction of canals in Upper Canada that would make their economy weaker. Another things is that the population of Lower Canada had a higher population but they both got the same number of deputies at the assembly (which is really undemocratical). When the Upper Canada got more population than Lower, they reclaimed REP BY POP so they got more seats than Lower.
Please consider a critique with your students. The narrator uses derogatory terms for Indigenous peoples in Canada. I hope he will correct it... and it serves as a lesson for students as well.
@Manek Iridius I think this video is a good introduction. In most of my classes in school I was shown a video to show us a topic, and then throughout the year/semester/subject we would dive deeper to what was in that video. Also, some students (including myself) find videos easier to understand than just reading from a textbook or hearing someone talk
This was a very good overview of the whole subject. One small mistake is that the poster you show when you begin talking about World War II is a World War I poster. The soldier has a gun with a bayonet, a weapon that had become obsolete by 1939.
Bayonets were not absolete by WW2. Soldiers still used bayonets in WW2. The bayonet that Commonwealth countries used in WW2 looked like a spike attached to the Lee Enfield Mrk 4 rifle versus the short sword bayonet attached to the Lee Enfield Mrk 1 rifle during WW1. I will give you credit that the poster is a WW1 poster.
I hated Canadian history as it was taught in high school. I think it should be taught in a completely different manor - perhaps getting kids to study their own ancestry and learn about world history as well as Canadian history in a way that is much more interesting to them. Why do we have to teach history as a linear bunch of dates and boring facts. If it was taught as a collection of stories it would encourage students curiosity and maybe they would go on long after high school to learn because they are interested and curious.
@@louiselloyd1523 Living history sites are great for that collection of stories, since you get to talk to people who specialize in the history of that site, rather than someone who has to stick to a curriculum, condense so much teaching into a school year, and make sure to administer tests and homework at the same time. Not to knock on history teachers, because some of them are quite knowledgeable, but they (a bit unfortunately) have to stick to the curriculum to teach everything on time. And on a related note, I hated US history for the longest time due to how it was presented to me in my American highschool classes, but I have recently gained a better appreciation for it by spending this summer volunteering at a local fort, and learning about the great military history (of which I am a fan) that occurred near my hometown, and never even knew! I certainly would have been much more interested if I had been taught that there were battles fought a few miles down the road! I've also gained an interest for the American Civil War (something I usually ignored in favour of learning more about the Napoleonic Wars), since I interpret a post-war Union garrison soldier, and learned a lot about the soldier's life back in the day.
Yep. Wish I paid more attention in my history classes bc this is interesting stuff, but the way it was presented was just horribly confusing and boring lol.
Muchas gracias para veer porque es importante hablar frances acqui. Nosotros estamos contento que usted esta en Québec! Désolé des fautes, je ne maitrise pas très bien l'espagnol.
I'm a Québécois American and my family emigrated to America in 1899 as a part of the "Grande Hémorragie"! It was so cool to learn about Canada's history and this video was really well done :)
As always, very succinct and well made! As a Canadian, I feel you did a great job. My only constructive feedback would be that the Quebec separatist movement was a much more significant part of Canadian history than shown here, especially at the peak of tensions in the 60's and 70's with the FLQ and that was skipped to my surprise. That aside, well done and I look forward to your next video!
@@EpimetheusHistory No problem! Love your channel and for the record, your coverage of the "Sea People" and Bronze age collapse are the best I've ever seen.
PS to the owner: Thank you for deleting my previous comment even to there was nothing false about it. Sure the example is extremely worst but still you get the right picture because that's what hapenned. If you're about to delete my comment again why don't you delete all the hateful comments made about us the Québécois? Like we're bad people and eveything. It's not really fair but we're used to it :) @robleeandroid He has skipped a lot of things and some of his informations aren't accurate but the only thing that comes to your mind is the FLQ part. Absolutely grotesque but classic as always. Everything is good to make the Québécois looks evil am I right? Everyone knows here in Québec that the FLQ is described as "terr*rists" by the ROC (rest of canada) which is completely absurd, but of course the english are completely ignorant about mostly everything that is related to us. Its typical, either you hear some rumours, the good old anti-Québécois propagandas or the twisted fake news from your media sources outlets. About the référendum, if you think we lost the 95s referendum by fairness you are truly mistaken, it has been proven by documentaries that the federal interfered during the campaign by creating special secret units with the RCMP to work against the Souverainiste movement and destabilize it. They literally infiltrated the Souverainiste movement and they created tones of propaganda anti-Québec. Sounds like what the N*zis germans did during the third Reich huh, creating a bunch of secret units to destabilize the opposition. Just like the purpose of the G*stapo. We own the Fleuve Saint-Laurent which is the only river that opens to the grand lakes. That's one of the reasons why Canada doesn't want us to get our country. Either way Québec's independence is inevitable because of his location. If it's not in my lifetime, it'll be later. Canada is an artificial country that is doing everything it can to survive and Canada can't survive without Québec. Simple as that. Vive le Québec souverain! ⚜️⚜️⚜️
@@waitwho3074 I said the Separatist Movement in general was (and is) a significant part of our history - I did not only mention the FLQ. To mention one without the other would be absurd though. You've made a giant leap from one small piece of feedback.
I love being a Newfoundlander. It's pretty cool being able to accurately say I'm a second-gen Canadian while being an eighth-gen Newfoundlander. Canada's oldest and most colonial province but still Canada's youngest and coolest province at the same time.
@Abel Desalegn after 500+ years of being kept as owned servants to Britain and later Canada, there forms a defeatist attitude whereby parents actively tell their kids "go away to the mainland, there's nothing here for you". Only difference between Newfoundland and Ireland is Ireland got their independence. I have an aunt who moved to Toronto about 40 years ago. She worked in a factory her whole life, model employee. Just before retirement she was told "we're moving the shop to Mexico. You can move with us but you'll work for about $2/hr. She said "no thanks" and came home to Newfoundland, losing her pension she paid into her whole life. Tell me again about the better opportunities in Ontario?
@@yoda5280 "Canada's oldest and most colonial province but still Canada's youngest and coolest province at the same time." Please read the whole sentence next time. Canada as we know it is only not quite 153 years old yet, whereas John Cabot claimed it for England in 1497, and he called it the "New Founde Land", or "Terra Nova" in Portugese. It's well over 500 years old as a colony, yet 71 years old a a Canadian province. Oldest and youngest at the same time. That's not including the Norse Vikings that were there an estimated 500 years before that. It's not a territory because A) we wouldn't stand for it; and B) Canada gets to make more money off us as a province that pays into equalization. Territories are not part of the equalization formula.
NLJosh83 “Canadas oldest and most colonial province,” are you even reading what you write? That literally makes 0 sense. It wasn’t a P R O V I N C E until the late 40’s. “Canadas coolest province,” what the hell is there in Newfoundland that’s better than any other province? Please explain, I’d love to have you reason with me as to how Newfoundland, a province with a depleting population due to the ever growing job shortages (which will be even worse now that the economy is on a full downwards trajectory) is possibly cooler than somewhere like Ontario? (And no, I’m not an Ontarian). Being Canadas newest province isn’t really something to be “proud” of either. I suppose you could be proud that you technically were a country for a period of time until the end of the Second World War, but even then, you’re along the lines of forgotten when it comes to the broad overlook when one sees Canada.
@@yoda5280 "Canada's oldest and most colonial province but still Canada's youngest and coolest province at the same time." it's a paradox, and I'm not going to apologize if you just don't get it. British Colonies in North America were often called provinces long before Canada became a thing, and Newfoundland is the oldest colony in North America. Many things that were oldest or first in all of North America happened right here, to the point where spoken English resembles that of the British Isles or heavily influenced by French more so than American or Canadian English, as is the case in other parts of Canada. For example: what's the oldest civil police force in North America? The RNC. Late 1940s? 1 April 1949 to be exact. Canada's coolest province? Well, we have Inuit, Innu, people of mixed descent, Micmacs, an extinct tribe of Beothuk indians, and a mixture of European ancestry all wrapped up in a native population package similar in size to the city of Hamilton. Built in diversity in a small number of people. With a a population density of 1.4 people per square kilometre, lots of room to roam, especially with the majority of land being public. The declining population is due to a defeatist attitude that is instilled upon NL children from birth that "there's nothing here for you, you have to move away from here", similar to the attitude you seem to have. Couple that with an aging population and low birth rates (two generations ago it was all big families, now many are choosing to not have kids anymore) ther's not much chance for growth. The economy's current downward trajectory is mainly following the price of oil, which is something NL has no control over, just like Alberta. Chief difference is that our job losses aren't so bad because offshore oil doesn't require nearly as much labour that land-based oil extraction does. Ontario is, for all intents and purposes, more American than Canadian. Show anyone a picture of a Main St. in Indiana and a Main St. in Southern Ontario with no flags, metric signage or license plates to telltale, and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. The Fort of York would have fallen to the Americans if it wasn't for the Newfoundland Regiment showing up and defeating them, sending them back across Lake Ontario. There's a statue commemorating this at the bottom of Bathurst Street in Toronto. "you technically were a country for a period of time until the end of the Second World War"
Good summary! I like the red maple leaf with the blue side bars on either side of the flag instead of the red side bars; these would be a nod to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as well as a nod to the red white and blue of the Union Jack.
Laurie I hope my comment didn't sound as a form of privacy invasion your comment tells of a wonderful woman with a beautiful heart which led me to comment I don't normally write in the comment section but I think you deserve this compliment. If you don’t mind can we be friends? Thanks God bless you….🌹🌹
Québec province is clearly the creative part of Canada. The culture, the food, the architecture and even their cities are distinctive. Québec is self-made and it shows. The rest of Canada is just a USA 2.0. A bunch of suburban cities that piggybacks United-States for practically everything. After spending time across Canada, Québec province is definitely the real deal.
The most distinctly inaccurate comment of Canada I've ever heard. From a Canadian, that was born and raised in BC, lived in ON and visited Quebec, and also lived in California. You, "sir" know not of what you speak.
@@sailorgirl2017 From a foreigner’s point of vue, English Canada has no cultural identity. It’s literally a branch plant culture. A generic copy of United-States. Without Québec, Canada becomes the 51 State of America.
@@californiabob3231 Key point...foreigner...You do realize that the entire world views Canada as a completely separate identity from the US. You need only travel outside your country "Bob". The change in tone, warmth and welcoming is very apparent. Canadians are respected, welcomed and adored around the world. Americans...not so much. Hate to burst your American Exceptionalist bubble.
“The Hudson Bay Company is still in existence today, mainly as a retail store chain sharing the same name” I should not have laughed at that as hard as I did 🤣🤣🤣
PROUD TO BE CANADIAN!, Oh god do I hope that not every canadian is like you. Anyway, what does canada have that I need... absolutely nothing BTW, that username is probably illegal in your country
I used to live in Toronto and it’s a good Metropolis to live in for the youth. If I come back to Canada I rather be in Quebec because it’s more Latin. As a Latino I used to get along more with the French- Canadians.
Many Germans prefer Whitehorse. In, the summer, it has almost 22 hours of daylight (land of the midnight sun) and incredible, undiscribable, unblemished nature.
Thank you for making good content like this. I like the alternative flags in exactly the numerical order they are presented in. The best Canadian Province to live in is the one you’re from, but I enjoy visiting Quebec the best, followed by British Columbia.
The question of Quebecois autonomy remains a complicator of Canadian life. Visited Quebec, noted that one almost never sees the Canadian flag, while the provincial one is everywhere. And most folks speak French in daily life (with a substantial number bilingual), while the rest of Canada is unmoveably monolingual in English. Quebec is a distinct, self-conscious nation within a nation, and the final chapter hasn't been written yet.
I love Totonto. I preferred the new Canadian flag now. Thanks for the heroes that started to fight fir the freedom of Canada and united the different provinces into a one country. I am proud as a Canadian citizen and enjoyed living in Toronto. I love visiting the many lovely cities and beautiful countryside of Canada.
Mila I hope my comment didn't sound as a form of privacy invasion your comment tells of a wonderful woman with a beautiful heart which led me to comment I don't normally write in the comment section but I think you deserve this compliment. If you don’t mind can we be friends? Thanks God bless you….🌹🌹
One of the most loved countries of the planet. Congratulations dear canadians you rock and your country will be forever our favorite place for vacation. Greetings from México.
Flag 4 look very similar to the flag of Utrecht stad (city), but without the maple leaf and the red and white inverted. Greetings from the Netherlands.
You should google up the ''Canadian duality flag''. The colors of liberty are present and the small blue stripes can be seen as the french-canadian population. Love those stripes haha
Great vid. Except the "indians" and the "eskimo" stuff already covered by many people. One of the main reason that Canada stayed with the British is that the crown gave back a lot of autonomy and religious rights and such to the french people. In case of loyalist, of course a lot came, but there is also a lot of "americans" who settled inside Canada not knowing they crossed the border, notably in the eastern township in Québec. NewFoundland stayed with the UK after the Constitution act and was transfered by Canada only after WW2 (you said it, but it wasnt on the map prior). Doing so, they draw the new border of Labrador and Québec province with the watershed line. To this day, some people from Québec are still salty with that, since later a lot of ressources were found in the countryside. Fun fact, the mapple leaf on the canadian flag is not the mapple leaf indigenous of Canada, but one from Norway... The constitution of 1982 saw the betrayal of the english province to the province of Québec. They indeed decided the final form and signed the constitution during the night while the PM of Québec was sleeping. To this day, Québec never sign it. Thanks for the last second of the video when you spoke about Québec. Your channel is great.
I was born 3 years after WW2 near the German border and promptly got polio in one foot. We came to Canada when I was four and settled near Niagara Falls where we have the best fruit source and best weather (lucky) in the country. I've seen this country a few times and I fell in love with the mountains in the west. Thank goodness we now live in a modern golden age here with a superior social net.
If only theres a time machine? I'd destroy the maker of that gun powder, and I'll rewrite the history and introduce that gun powder to the natives before the invasion of europeans
@nze the Chinese never used gun powder as a weapon, they used it for fireworks. The indigenous population never needed gun powder as the Americas where extremely fruitful with game(large reason why some "tribes" never formed settlements). The larger issue with the settlement of the Americans was the introduction to smallpox and other diseases. Prior to the settlement the Amercias population could have rivaled Europe, even with gun powder the population was sick and dieing from something foreign to them. A big example is the Spanish conquest into the central America and the Aztec population.
Epimetheus I enjoyed the Short History of Canada that you brought to us through this Video.It is not meant to be comprehensive but still gives us an outline which included the most important events in Canadian History bring us down to Canada today. Thank you for the well done Narration and the effort and research to put this together.
Hey, your pronunciation of Jacques Cartier was pretty good man! Thanks for this great video - I feel slightly less uneducated about the country I currently live in now. (I didn't even know where the Hudson Bay was)
It would be awesome if you did a "lost history" video, for example the Sahara goes through wet and dry periods every 20,000 years, the last wet period ended 8,000 years ago with the shifting monsoon rains.. The devastated survivors had to leave the now desert Sahara causing a great migrations of Africas superior minds at the time to places like Egypt.. Just imagine the lost civilizations and history buried under a world of sand.
@Snaggle Toothed Perhaps they were significantly advanced, the harsh desert conditions doesn't enable much preservation (S/N studies show the Sahara went from green to 90% desert in approximately 200 years, most societies throughout world history would've been hard pressed to not only escape such a catastrophe with there lives but also trying to persevere whatever history they had).. And as I stated the sands of the Sahara and many other factors would have completely erased almost all evidence and buried it in meters of sand (likely after wearing the structures down by the elements).. We, (humans as a collective) don't know everything.. If we could go back in the far past we would know for certain and maybe some archaeologist or historians in the future will be able to find some tattered remnants.. Either way, at the moment we only have questions and speculation.
I love how you covered the First Nations history from contact. Since you did. Here are 10 things Canadians should know about the Treaties: 🇨🇦 1. If you are a Canadian, know you are a signatory to a Treaty. If you are a settler (i.e. non-Indigenous), know you are a benefactor of the Treaty. 2. Read the Treaty. Know which Treaty territory you are on. That is the true Canadian history. 3. Know that the Treaty it’s not just an Indigenous peoples agreement. Treaties are solemn agreements between people. We are all Treaty peoples. Know that treaties are the foundation of Canada. 4. The Treaty is a reciprocal treaty, an equal treaty for co-existence. It was an agreement between the British Crown and Indigenous peoples. First Nations leaders believed they were entering into a trust relationship with the representative of the British Crown. They considered the Treaty a mutual trust agreement to live in peace. 5. Non-native people are benefactors of those treaties because they are receiving the benefits and profits of the resources from native land immediately after the signing of Treaties. There are billions of dollars coming out of traditional territories, and it never stays in the territory. These real costs of resource extraction, in turn, are borne by the people and communities who have lived here all along. Today, most are living in extreme poverty. 6. First Nations never violated the treaty. The Treaty is a sacred promise that was made with the Creator and cannot be taken back. This is the foundation that the Treaty cannot be “thrown out” or reneged on. “For as long as the grass grows, the rivers flow and the sun shines.” 7. First Nations have never surrendered their land. Assurances were made by the Crown that land and resource use by the Indigenous peoples would continue, and that the use of land for settlers would be limited to agriculture. From a quote of Treaty 6 ““the government said that we would live together, that I am not here to take away what you have now…I am here to borrow the land…to the depth of a plough…that is how much I want.” 8. The federal government has a fiduciary responsibility with First Nations who entered into Treaty. In plain terms, it’s similar to the responsibility that a corporation has to its shareholders. The Canadian government’s shareholders are First Nations and it has a duty, a legal responsibility to them. For allowing settlers to live among the Indigenous inhabitants, the Treaty was to ensure peace and goodwill between Indigenous people and the Crown, in exchange for the Queen’s “bounty and benevolence.” 9. When reading the Treaty, you’ll never come across the word “ownership”, because no one can own the land. The land owns its inhabitants. The Indigenous people were given the sacred responsibility as caretaker of the land. At no point that the parties of treaty discussed the concepts of land surrender or sale. 10. According to the Treaty, First Nations will always have a right to the land to hunt, fish and forage and the Treaty and Aboriginal Right is further protected under Section 35 of the Canadian Constitution. As long as industrial development continues to take place on these lands without consent, these Constitutional rights are being violated. Via WC Native News "Learning about Treaties in tar sands territory" written by White Spotted Horse
For my Covid project, I did my family history and I have family members genratiosn back from like every aspect of this video. I have a few Scotts who came over to fight for the British in the civil american war then fled to Ontario. I have one English ancestor who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company as a surveyor. He married a Cree woman and their grandchildren were part of Louis Riel's rebellion, yes I'm Métis. I also have 6 ancestor who were among the first settlers in Quebec.
Canada and Canadians are the best. They must know how lucky they are to be so well governed, to have breath taking scenery. Canada has everything in providing a good life. Awesome!!!
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Many people(especially Canadians) have commented about the use of the word "Eskimo" on the map. It has a much more controversial historical context in Canadian history, compared to its usage in Alaska and the continental United States; that I did not know about. This appears to be significantly due to the fact that the Canadian government issued "Eskimo tags" which had a number instead of the bearer's name that was used for official purposes.
I would be interested to read anyone's experiences or knowledge on this topic to give further context.
The word Inuit simply means people, while the etymology of Eskimo is unconfirmed according to the below article.
In my opinion, the word "Eskimo" is not inherently inappropriate-However given it's historical context especially in Canada it harkens back to when it has been used in a bigoted context.
I would be especially interested to read any opinions from any Inuit/indigenous Arctic people and thier opinions on the term.
Below are two articles that someone has posted in the comments that you can read to get more context on this issue.
www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/04/24/475129558/why-you-probably-shouldnt-say-eskimo
www.vice.com/en_ca/article/xd7ka4/the-little-known-history-of-how-the-canadian-government-made-inuit-wear-eskimo-tags
Canadians also tend to get upset when you call First Nations folks "Indians." I know this due to the hate comments in one of my videos.
People will find anything to cry about now days. They will even attempt to change or mute history to accommodate their butt-hurt. If this offends you then good. History is not meant to be pleasant at all times but present the facts as we know them today.
Hellk Epimetheus first i would like to thank you for all this history videos. Can you please do a documentary about history of Albanian explained in 10min? Albanian language is the 1st Indoeuropian Language than Armanian than Greece .
Decriminalize Darwinism coming from an actual 6’ 5” full blooded Denesuline Native STFU, scumbags like yourself should do actual research first making a fool out of yourself, there are 3 major ethnic groups who make up Canada something this guy on the video forget to mention the 3 major ethnic groups are Natives aka First Nations, Inuits aka Eskimo and Métis aka Mixed Natives with Europeans. Here’s something wannabes don’t know or get. No one says part Native in Canada because there 635 First Nations Tribes and that’s not including Inuits and Metis in fact mixed Natives are their own people they don’t claim to be part of full blood tribes. Because of their European blood. Instead developed a culture and language of their own by mixing their Native and European heritage together....
@Decriminalize Darwinism No, in canada they are indeed called First Nations..
I'm from the Netherlands and my grandma lived through the second world war. She always told me about our liberation by the Canadians. It led to some of her siblings moving there and she and my mom visited them very often. They even tried to move there themselves. When I was nine, I first went there. A beautiful country, thank you so much for liberating us!
Love from the Netherlands
@@raefinn8448 Yes to this day the Dutch remain extremely grateful towards Canadians for giving them their home back. Meanwhile, in France, where millions died taking a land freely given to the enemy without much of any fight, complain when they're joked about how easily they surrender.
@@raefinn8448 well the Dutch were not so wonderful when they colonize my country, Indonesia
much love to you and your fellow countrymen that will never forget our ancestor's sacrifice. Thank you for that. Lest we forget. Love, a Canadian.
@@noorindra5150 no one was nice 200 years ago mate. Canada wasnt so nice to their natives either and I'm sure Indonesia has some dark history too.
My family have been in Canada for a very long time but I have Dutch roots. I have to say that the love we have for the Netherlands is deep. We love the tulips you send us and our relationship will always be strong just as it should be. The love us mutual my friend ♥️🇨🇦
Welcome to Canada. Where many lives were once lost in the Beaver Wars, and a Department Store once owned half of our country's territory.
My god, never thought of it that way lol
LOL, a department store once owned half the territory -- lol, its true though
Lmao, I only realized that now
What a great country it is
And now that department store is basically the size of a bedroom closet
Canadians still call it 'The Seven Years' War'. As do the Europeans.
Literally only the USA refers to it as 'The French and Indian War'.
We are weirdos lol
that's caase only America has the balls to call it what it was
@@ImperialRadioYT balls or just still confused?
@@drqazlop Probably a mixture of both lol. The word "Indian" is a frowned upon name that is still sometimes used to describe the indigenous peoples of North America. I say frowned upon because said indigenous people do not wish to be called "Indian's", that is just a name the Europeans gave them.
@@yourneighbor2845 haha I know. I appreciate your clarification though. I think many from the US might still be confused as to how name their indigenous people. I don't see how that gives them "balls"
As a Canadien Aboriginal, our country is beautiful. The natural resources here are always fought over and still are today. Not by armies, per say, but big corporations. Being Cree I will always be proud of Canada and gradually how we are trying to reconcile the nations great people. VIVA ABORIGINAL CANDIEN.
The Indigenous nations of this country were brought to near extinction by the hate and arrogance of the European colonialists and the Church, esp the RC Church. 155 years after Confederation countless Indigenous people live in squalor without even drinkable water and access to medical services. We may be beautiful geographically, but we live with a legacy of racism equal to places such as the US and South Africa. The destruction wrought by the residential schools outreached any operated by the Nazis in Germany. As a white Canadian I am ashamed. We need the unvarnished Truth, and actually meaningful Reconciliation past political posturing by vote-seeking politicians who forget their promises on election day. _Every Child Counts_
@@coldlakealta4043 - Yeah, a lot of nasty things were done by a lot of people to a lot of people all over the world always. Even the indigenous nations on the land that is present-day Canada to each other. Let's be crystal clear about all that.
The past was brutal everywhere. The Mongol invasions of Europe and Asia wiped out over 10% of the earth's population at the time. No one, nowhere, had it easy.
Let's all work towards a better, more enlightened, more universal, future for everyone. Fair and balanced and free. It's a question of raising consciousness, sensibility, getting our hierarchy of values ordered, aligned, blessed.
A brutal massacre by a modern army against a defenseless people is happening right now as I write in Gaza. 12,000 children dead and counting. Been going on for months. What are we collectively today doing to stop it? Not much.
Is there a spiritual/ aesthetic/ ethical dimension that we can tune into and bring heaven closer to earth or do only mundane finances and resource-capture and armies count? With all the inherent human-all-too-human frailties and mistakes and corruptions over the eons, these are the questions the religions have been grappling with, including the Church and the RC Church. Peace on earth and goodwill towards all mankind.
Just wait until the felon in chief hears about all your water.
"The English and the French did not coexist peacefully." That's a great summary of 90% of Anglo-French relations
Jeez y'all need to chill with the political nonsense. Apparently I need to spell this out: this is a joke about the frequent wars between the Kingdom of England, later the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Kingdom (Republic or Empire) of France. It has nothing to do with the demographics of Canada, or whatever situation you may feel is in Quebec, besides that the English and French fought over Nouvelle France/Quebec a couple times, a few hundred years ago.
;)
They still don't totally
Quebec and the rest of Canada
I agree
Hated each other from the word go. The only time they seem to agree on something is if someone else tries to join the fight, then they both turn on them before resuming coarse pleasantries.
I was not born in Canada but the life that it made possible for me to create is something I would die and defend for. This is the greatest country in the world.
As a Canadian I think it's great that you feel like that. I'm glad you're life is better here
Thank you!! Glad to have you here neighbour.
I always get annoyed when I hear New-Found-Land too
YES. i AGREE WITH YOU COMPLETELY, cANADA IS THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN WORLD
I have the same opinion
How dare you show Wayne Gretzky on the rangers
Krio Is awesome lmao
right should be Indianapolis
@bobby ruest What the hell does "sound canadian" even mean? It's a nation of immigrants? Aboriginal? :P Maybe Tom Wolfleg. Is that Canadian enough?
It's true tho.
Oiler Bois
Just a comment to educate any viewers interested: Micmac is actually spelled Mi'kmaq and is pronounced "Mig-maw". Additionally, us Mi'kmaq traditionally referred to ourselves as L'nu, meaning people of the tongue or language. Our traditional territory of Mi'kma'ki actually covers all of the Atlantic provinces, up to the Gaspe région of Quebec, as well as a portion of Maine.
well that clears up the key points of Canada in 10 minutes.
"Claimed" territory ain't worth nothin', boy, you lost it and none of the territory in Canada or America actually belongs to the Indians anymore.
Glad you mentioned that, my fathers family is from Newfoundland and are part mi'kmaq, when i saw the map i was trying to find their territory
And then came the MicMac Mall fooling generations into pronouncing it wrong
Went to school in the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia, before any class we'd have to acknowledge where the land came from (the mi'kmaq peoples). Admittedly it was a little silly considering we're just acknowledging the fact the land was unjustly taken from the original owners. Then again, Acadia seems to pride itself on making dumb decisions lol
I'm American. We couldn't have asked to have a better neighbor to our North.
we would love a better neighbor to the south.
L'artiste du oiseaux none would be better
Yeah only if you americans where better neighbours
@@JM-gj7de you have no idea how bad Canada gets treated by USA .
@@JM-gj7de get bent no one is ever going to attack Canada . If it happened it would be the U.S.A that caused it .
The only country in the world who gained their independence simply by asking nicely. Proud to be Canadian :)
Queen Elizabeth Is The Head Of State Of Canada.
Has Canada Gained Full Independence??
Who Is The Head Of State Of Canada??
A Queen Elizabeth
B Justin Trudeau
@Matthew oh yeah, because Queen Elizabeth is muslim.
@Matthew You have to be a troll
@Matthew you need help
Lol You're definitely not Canadian. You pronounced it "New-Found-Land".
Thats WAY too proper and exact sounding.
We pronounce it like "Noofin-land".
We're more sophisticated than that. I've always pronounced it "Noofind-land" (not "find" but "fin+d") 😃
Shut up who cares he can say it how he wants plus you don’t even know if he is canadian your for sure not canadian
@@AwlBran Newlabrador
@@beans6044 Only born and raised in Nova Scotia. And it's not us who decide, but the people of Newfoundland
@@AwlBran Newfoundlander here. Alec's "Noofin-land" is pretty spot on.
Nicely put together in just 10 minutes. As much as my mother and father were born here, I happened to be born in the UK, and never really got a good lesson on the history of Canada. This was very enlightening, and I'm proud to be a citizen of Canada for the last 22 years. I'm amazed the country is only 38m in population, as I would have thought most of the world would want to live in this great country. Thanks for the time and effort you put into this quick history lesson.
too cold in winter lol, though its survivable I think that's what turns people off the most.
Much of the world DOES want to move here or at least visit 😊
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
We're 40,5 millions as of today! By 2050 we should be more than 50 million. Truly our country is fantastic and a lot of people wants to live here.
it's cold and there is America, which is a better version down south
As a stateless, Canada welcomed me 30 years ago, and I still feel I won a lottery. A brave and beautiful country not afraid to bring people from all over the world, especially refugees. My wonderful adopted country is a model for the world, I would give my life to protect it’s values.
Force For Good Glad that you are with us! i met two young Cubans in ottawa at a supermarket! They said they loved Canada and would give their lives for it!
Then perish.
I'm kidding lol glad to have a fellow Canadian like you living here
You are Habesha.
@@vincentsavoca5575 A proud one.
Thank you for being here. Canada is better for it.
I am Canadian and you forgot one really important thing. Nunavut became is own territory in 1999.
Nunavut matters..
@@KneeStrikes How do I award "TH-cam Gold"?
I'm an American and I noticed that
I scrolled through the comments to make sure I wasn’t just being redundant. I had this comment in mind too as the video was wrapping up.
I remember when I was a kid and my elementrary school teacher asked the class to draw Nunavut into our textbooks when it became officially recognized 😍
Being American and hearing that most Canadians know More about the Us than we know Canada I wanted to try and understand a bit of their history so thank you.
Canadians know more about the USA constitution then their own because they don't exist in the constitution act of Canada 1867-1982 consolidated
7:47 - here is canada
TBF canadians probably know more about the US because there's more to know. ifyanowatimeen
@@iagreesbut There isn't more to know, it's because the U.S. has a vastly larger population and massive industries for spreading U.S. products and propaganda including film and television around the world
@@iagreesbut American public education system is failing its own nation. TBH
we Americans refer to Canadians as our good friends from the north. i been to Canada several times and I think the Canadians are friendly and great people . all my visits i really enjoyed and been all over Canada. i like the fact that most Canadians don't talk at you from a distance they generally like to get closer the speak . great manors from great people. thank you Canada.
Thank you Canadá for welcoming me 20 years ago, best decision I have ever taken. With gratitude, work everyday and trying to be better people for our son and our community, the way we believe we can pay back for what Canada did for us. Canada is our home.
thank you for coming to this great country, Canada would not be Canada without immigration
I hope you share the same sentiment with the Indigenous community - it's like the world seems to leave the Local's out of the conversation for some reason. If it wasn't for the great Numbered Treaty agreements, this home you love would cease to exist.
@Sean Dell when I have had the opportunity I've have done it...I come from a native family from back home and let people know about it...and I have shared with my native Co workers my love and gratitude for them and this country.
@@evastronomy8048 I mean, you had the opportunity in your original comment and I can't seem to find where it's says you feel the same about Indigenous People.
Look. It's all good. I am very happy my home is good enough for you to all this place your home. I'm grateful. And I love sharing my home with everyone. What hurts me is people don't share with us. They don't share their love for us. They don't share their gratitude with us.
We are almost always left out of the conversation.
Take care, friend. I am happy you love this place and I hope more of your family moves here and becomes my family. Because that's what you are to me - you're my family.
Kisâkihitin.
@Sean Dell it is sad that some people come here and expect everything for granted...and even worst, they want to impose their bad habits and rules and disrespect or don't care about the law and the responsibilities en Canada....I am feel very bad for that...and thanks for your comments...I still believe that out there here are more good people than bad ones...
As a Mexican, I really love Canada. So knowing about their history is nice.
Muchos gracias, amigo
También amamos a nuestros primos mexicanos. ¡Gracias!
Mexican exchange students at university were always the best to hang out with and party with
As an American I feel like America takes Mexico and Canada for granted. Y’all are like our brothers.
Como estadounidense, siento que Estados Unidos da por sentado a México y Canadá. Todos ustedes son como nuestros hermanos.
i wish america didn't steal cali from mexico i hope we become are own thing but also don't know if it would be a good idea if cali split even tho trump is bad i don't know if splitting is a very good idea
"If some countries have too much history, WE, have too much...geography!..."
Canadian PM Mackenzie King in 1936
The population of Canada are nearly all near the American border.
@@altela1597 ok?
@United states of America ???
@@altela1597 ????????????
@@altela1597 "...Most of us are still huddled tight to the border, looking into the candy store window, scared by the Americans on one side, and the bush on the other"....
Canadian writer Mordechai Richler in 1989
I'm Mexican but I love Canada I hope I can study in Canada someday and get my PR
Like everyone knows what a PR is lol....
The Viking Village mentioned at the beginning of the video was inhabited for about 10 years. It was established as a staging grounds to gather material from the other maritime provinces. Abandon because tension with the local Beothuk people, and supply lines. I been to the site a couples times in l'anse meadows, so cool there. A must see on the west coast of the island!
@carole t no it is true the indiginious people most likely traveled here when Russia was still connected to alaska a long long time before any of us called it home.
and in the past couple of years another site has been discovered at the southern end of that peninsula near Port Aux Basques, NFLD
I heard these people actually discovered a time travel portal where they were settled and when the realized the danger it would bring to humanity, they destroyed the portal and abandoned the region.
There are actually 12 Viking settlements in that area. L'anse aux Meadows being the first of 3 on the southern coast of Labrador. 4 settlements on the east coast of Newfoundland's northern peninsula and 5 more located on the east coast of Labrador.
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To everyone complaining about things missed: any country’s history in 10 minutes is obviously going to be a bit short of comprehensive. Even Canada’s, though admittedly we might come the closest. We’re pretty boring, but that’s because boring history usually makes for better actual living, as opposed to the Chinese curse ‘may you live in interesting times’. Both the US and UK look mighty interesting at the moment; thank God we aren’t that kind of fun.
Anyways, I get pointing out inaccuracies, but coming into a The History of _____ in 10 minutes to list off things missed seems a bit silly.
True, this comment should be pinned.
Boring??! If you study anyone of these facts he spoke about they are far from boring.
Interesting times means time period.
Yah but like.. using Eskimo instead of Inuit is a pretty big glaring error
@@daniellemegaffin6163 I think the one that stuck out more to me for some reason was having Nunavut on the map when talking about Newfoundland joining. Then not referencing the territory being paired off of the NWT a half century later.
Samuel de Champlain was never mentioned in this video HE"S THE FOUNDER OF NEW FRANCE
As a french Quebecer, i'm not surprised at all. A lot of english speakers only see Canada is as english country.
The history of Canada is really différent if you go to an English school or a French school
@@charlesbernard1236 Some english canadians (not everyone, only a fews) thinks that french canadiens cames in Canada after the english and that they are just some sort of immigrants coalition that want to take over a part of "their" country. There's even politicals groups that are name "french out" or "french get out", that want french canadiens to get out of "their" country and send them back to their "own country"(France). I don't know if these people ever went to school, but i hope not, because when i heard some bullshit like that im scared of what english canadians learn in history class about us.
@@christopher4589 I can totally see some uneducated moron believing that shit. In Quebec, it's basic history you learn by the time you're 14-15.
@@gargouenzene I've never met a single person who thinks that and we are far better off with Quebec. Even if you don't learn French well, it teaches respect for cultures other than your own. My hometown is actually 50% Italian and both Italian and French were taught in my school.
Great job! Comprehensive yet succinct. A really good resource for my Canadian history class. Thank you.
I’m a Mi’kmaq from Nova Scotia. I wouldn’t want to live in any other province but here. What we lack in jobs, health care or hope, we make up for with a life style that’s second to none and a simple beauty and a thousand beaches that fit out coast line.
The province I like to visit most is Quebec. I love Montreal but love Quebec City like no other. If I were fluent in French I would love to live there.
This video is a very good Cole’s notes version on the history of Canada. But if you come to the east coast, I would pronounce it “new FIN land” and just for the hell of it pronounce scallop “ sk-all- up” not “sk-al-op”. Cheers
In Quebec your french doesn't need to be perfect..., we speak a slangy french, we're not frenchies, are only descendants.
I'm a Huron/Wendat by my maternal grandfather.
Believe it or not. Well either way Quebec has a very special place in my heart!
Mais oui! I love Quebec too. Fabulous province. Canada is pretty spectacular from coast to coast to coast.
Quebec City is the greatest
Imagine having as much as the HADHAD'$ from $YRIA....fcUK'n instantly in NOVA $COTIA
I’m from Canada, and every time I hear about our history, I never know if I want to route for the English or the French.
Is it too much to ask for both? In some ways, we English were the worst, but in many ways we weren't the worst. He mentions the fact that there were two french colonies Louisiana and Quebec are their modern equivalents, but look at Louisiana does anyone there still speak french? no, but here the culture is still thriving. This is the beauty of our nation, america seeks to assimilate and expand, whereas we have always peacefully co-existed. The treatment of the natives in this country is our only shame, a shame that must be corrected if we are to move into a future united.
@Halton Hills Heroes When did people from India get involved in this conversation?
Whenever i was taught about history.. I was always taught that we are all bad people. But i don't care. It's okay to be proud of your heritage. No matter what the self hating racist/feminist teacher says.
I'm offended
@@mikepurdue7472 they try a lot in schools these days but we must resist
You forgot to say that the constitution was ratifyed at 3AM in a hotel room, where the pre-minister of Québec was not invited.
BUMP
Pineapple X ratified but not signed by Québec
Trudeau showed the queen his little Trudeau?
Rene Levesque was the first Parti Quebecois premier, elected on a platform of separating from Canada. He was ideologically opposed to signing a new constitution, and after much effort to persuade him to support bringing the constitution home from England, they finally gave up on him and went ahead and signed it without his consent.
@@ianmacmillan6961 It seems like the constitution was a lot of Trudeau's doing, to me.
Useful history perspective.
I am 7th generation Canadian. Happy and proud to be Canadian. My ancestors arrived from Ireland with a grant of land near Peterborough Ontario. They cleared and settled the land. I grew up on a farm that was a consolidation of several original land grants.
I think Ontario is a great place to live. All the provinces and territories have something good to offer. I think BC would be a great place to live. I enjoy the maritime provinces.
Canada is a land of tolerance, diversity and opportunity. We need to work to protect our democracy against the trend towards fascism that is advancing in too many EU nations and the US.
Agreed.
>democracy is when left wing commie kneelers control the country with a iron fist and not right wing having a country be peaceful and promote nationality
Idiot.
We already have it with Trudope
You need to worry about modern threats. Fascism isn't a problem. China is literally breathing down yalls next and Tru-douche isn't doing so good for you guys. That said Canada has some great history as well. Cheers from your commie-hating neighbors in 'Murica🤓🇺🇲
@@weaselwolf8425 Cheers! We are well aligned on a distaste for Communism. I don't want government owning everything. China is a threat to all modern capitalist democracies. No easy answers there I believe.
I disagree on fascism. It is IMHO the modern problem of the day. It did not work well for Germany under Hitler. Or for Russia, but they don't recognize it. The current and modern threat is USA. The Trump led MAGA movement which denies and demands dear leader to take indefinite and unrestricted power to rape the country for a privileged few is a threat to democracy and must be taken seriously..
A joke I've heard in Alberta about Saskatchewan goes like this,
"Don't live in Saskatchewan,
Because if your wife leaves you, you'll see her walking away for two days."
Too funny. My dad was from Biggar - you know the sign there says "New York is big, but Biggar is bigger" LOL
I passed through Saskatchewan and heard a joke they have. Why is it so windy in Saskatchewan? Because Alberta sucks and Manitoba blows.
My grandpa said a similar joke. “If your dogs runs away you can watch it run for three days then get the truck and fetch it.”
@@bearygoodbeans8169 i'm from alberta, but my dad's family is from biggar, and biggar is my last name, so i stole that sign's joke to talk about my package.
I’m not from Canada so could you please explain the joke
As a Manitoban, I heartily endorse this video. We actually celebrate Louis Real day every February, & there are multiple statues of him around our capitol, Winnipeg.
I get the sense that Epimetheus isn't a Canadian, but this is still a decent history summary for me. I've found it quite a challenge to learn my own country's history, compared to how much I've learnt about US history through edutainment. I think Canadians have a lot less pride in our history--& in a way, I'm learning that that's not necessarily a bad thing. I feel like we have been ashamed of parts of our past--our relationships with the indigenous peoples, for example. Too ashamed to look back & try to gloss over it. But unless you want to get into the controversial, & the depressing, you're not going to really learn anything. There is much that's good, too, I think.
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your country is fucked... and cucked
@@Mogen562 and you are clearly a gullible low iq little piece of wortlessness
UsefulCharts Same I’m from Toronto
Mine too!🇨🇦❤️
UsefulCharts your Canadian eh?
Me too
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For the Canadian flags proposed but didn't make the cut, I like the idea of the second one as it acknowledges both our French and British history/heritage. However, I also love the idea of the third flag where it has the three maple leaves. Glad that they stuck with the one we have now. That's the one I'm used to.
Also, you didn't mention that Nunavut was the last territory to confederate to Canada in 1999. However, for a video that summarises Canadian history in ten minutes, you did a great job. Most people will find a point of interest such as Canada during World War I and would just find books or google up the information anyway. Or if interested in information about Confederation, they'd just look that up and would learn about the dates each province and territory joined Canada.
Aucune fierté au Québec d’un héritage anglais. Pour nous l’anglais c’est la domination et l’humiliation. Je n’ai aucun ami anglophone et je n’en veux pas,
Je veux vivre 100% en français dans mon seul pays, le Québec. Dès que je vais dans le Canada, je me sens dans un pays étranger du même ordre qu’un anglais arrive en France, complètement différent en presque tout. Dès que je vais aux USA je me sens 10 fois plus mieux accueilli et bienvenue que n’importe où au Canada. Je suis canadien, pas Canadian du tout, par la force, la trahison et la traîtrise. Je n’aime définitivement pas ce pays le Canada. La Canada, pays genocidaire des peuples autochtones avec la loi sur les indiens, toujours en vigueur, loi Canadian dont se sont inspirés le parti nazi en Allemagne et les blancs sud-africain pour concevoir leur régime d’appartheid. La Canada dont la constitution, avec laquelle je me torche, a pour but l’élimination du peuple québécois français avec sa politique multiculturalisme. Une constitution de merde totale avec des juges de cour suprême vendus au fédéral et à laquelle jamais un premier ministre du Québec ne signera. Un pays woke, non nommé Wokistan par hasard, ou on déforme notre langue pour l’inclusion, ou on fait des autodafés ou il y a une police de l’édition.C’est pas pour dire que les québécois sont parfaits, non, il y a tellement de traîtres québécois, de collabos québécois (tous les fédéralistes sans aucune exception), des gens sans âme ni honneur, les solidaires communistes, solidaires de tous sauf de leurs compatriotes. Et puis notre jeunesse meurtrie, blessée, heurtée dans ses sentiments, sans guide ni repère (on décolonise ici) incapable de se mobiliser pour un brin de fierté, d’affirmation. Je suis un apatride chez moi.
@@jbqu3142 Disons que ce que tu dis est ton opinion, cependant ton point de vu n'est pas un fait. La province de Québec est une province du Canada, nous sommes Canadiens tout autant que nous sommes Québécois. Le Canada comme tout autre pays du monde n'est pas tout blanc, mais non plus tout noir. Les temps modernes d'aujourd'hui sont différents. Le racisme, l'esclavagisme ou le non respect des peuples autochtones n'est plus d'actualités. Le français est important et se doit d'être protéger, cependant le Canada, le multiculturalisme et l'anglais ne sont pas ses ennemis. La diversité culturelle est ce qui rend le Canada génial et évolué. La constitution canadienne vise à protégé tous ses citoyens donc aucunement mauvaise. Dire woke comme si c'était péjoratif alors que cela signifie simplement être au courant des injustices sociales et vouloir les combattre. Pour finir, non les Canadiens Français ainsi que les Québécois ne sont pas des traitres, sinon tu insinuerais que 70% des Québécois sont des traitres... Dire fédéralistes alors que c'est simplement faire parti de son pays d'origine qu'est le Canada. Tu devrais plutôt être fier d'être Canadiens ainsi que Québécois, de ton histoire partagé avec tous les canadiens, et de la résilience du français en son sein. Les jeunes ne sont pas meurtris, blessés et encore moins sans repères. Justement ils savent que leur pays est le Canada et ne veulent pas s'engager dans un rêve irréalisable et complètement farfelu qu'est l'indépendance. Tu devrais être de faire partie de l'un des meilleurs pays du monde où il fait bon vivre et où la démocratie règne.
@@Urban_LP beau discours de colonisé aplati!
I live in Ontario my dad's family comes from Saskatchewan and as much as I enjoy poking fun at the French my best friend is French and Canada just wouldn't be the same without Quebec I love living here we have a beautiful country to explore
I hope I get to explore it sometime soon! :)
I grew up in Sudbury, 40% francophone. Hockey was fun with the full Leaf/Hab rivalry in full bloom within one city! Oh, I miss the Flour Mill!
So true! As much as I am annoyed by the French and their foolishness :') Canada wouldn't be the same without them
My wife and I love Canada so much, we have a CIBC account!
you said it! our country is beautiful, from coast to coast!
I’ve been to Montreal. I’m a native English speaker who’s fluent in Spanish and French. I was amazed the amount of Spanish speakers I met there. An amazingly multilingual area and I loved it.
Montreal does not reflect the reality of Quebec And neither does rural quebec reflect the reality of montreal
@@tubedude4859
Who are you?
As a Canadian I’m very sorry that you went to Montreal
@@tylerredenbach3797 why lol
@@tyrues1682 Just ignore them. They are ultra elitists of Quebec.
I’ve liked the simplicity of the Canadian flag and after seeing the other options I still feel they chose the right design
This is just an opinion of somebody from the USA
The Ensign flag with the Union jack was the best.
Mark Pettis Thank you Mark for your nice comment! Well when i travel to other countries they all recognize and love our flag! We are very proud of it and one day we will cut all ties with ?England and become a republic like you did! /the majority of Canadians want a republic. Go on line and see CITIZENS FOR A CANADIAN REPUBLIC for more details!
Ken, I understand the symbolism of the oceans but really I'm not digging the sides being blue. Not that red, white, and blue doesn't go together on flags, they totally do, but not this Canadian flag in particular. Glad they went with red.
I do like the red ensign though, our original flag as it shows the country's heritage.
Its not that easy to draw though.
Ken Lompart and one on the top for the artic
Thank you for a very well done video. You very respectfully summarised Canada's history.
I really love Canada 🇨🇦🇨🇦🍁
From Brazil 💚💛/-🇧🇷
I really love Canada 🇨🇦🇨🇦🍁
CACA = Shit did you know that?
@@altela1597 you're dumb lol. "caca" is the Canadian flag abbreviation.. LOL
@@kavithathoka3299 Nop, it is only ca or CAN and CAD for money. Caca is really shit in french ... Big FAT LOL here. All countries in the world have 3 letters for abbreviations, so why should we have 4?
@@kavithathoka3299No problem you can continue to say caca when you talk about Canada.
I live in on Lake Ontario but I love visiting Quebec. Also, you forgot how Nunavut became its own territory in 1999. You also forgot to mention residential schools
Dude - he had 10 minutes.
They teach it. We also have a national holiday called “orange shirt day” to (I guess) apologize for the natives. (Search it up)
@@MrJayehawk it was still an issue that literally lasted until like 1995 when the last one was closed, a simple mention would suffice
What's it like living on water?
@@MrJayehawk not mentioning residential schools is akin to not mentioning slavery in America
I was born in Montreal, QC but have lived in Victoria, BC for over 50 years. While I do miss my home town and it's unique features I truly love living on Vancouver Island. I am proudly Canadian.
Great vid. You've got a gift for effectively fitting long histories into short videos without making it seem too light on detail.
I think Canada chose the right flag tbh
I agree but I do kinda like the blue one and maybe having a more accurate maple leaf
Wrong the red ensign is the proper flag
red ensign is the best
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@@Ruthless_Robbery and then apologizing to each other over a cold beer. lol
Great TLDR video, it's a bit more complex than that, but yeah it's not really easy to fit in 400 years of history into a 10 minutes while going deep into details, so props to you, you did great job!
its still better then what school taught me in like 7 years
As an Australian I appreciated this educational video. Thank You so much.
@Guru Sandirasegaram The land rightfully belongs to Canada and Australia, what we did to the natives was horrible I will admit, but it all depends on how you view it, everyone displaced local populations and annexed lands at some point, ex. the Zulu's in South Africa drove out many of the local African tribes, they took land through force.
Guru Sandirasegaram No such thing as the stolen generation
@Real talk . It would be a shithole just like Africa if it was ruled by them lol.
@Guru Sandirasegaram Tell that to all the nations in the world!
I love learning about our children
Thanks for the video! I was sitting here and realized I had no clue about Canadian history. This has satisfied my initial curiosity and left me interested to learn more.
What about Samual de Champlain? He is pretty important in Canadian history. He’s the guy who founded Quebec City.
He didn't find it... he named it. It existed far before he showed up. Let's always remember people were here, thriving before Europeans arrived.
He ain’t jack shit. Norsemen discovered canada
@Dr Kush @Gardenchick18
I don't know what kind of dumb narratives you guys are trying to push, but go do it elsewhere.
Gardenchick18 I said that he founded the city, not that he found it. I know that the indigenous people were already there, I was just pointing out that he founded Quebec City. I was just curious as to why he was not brought up. He could have been an example of how working with the indigenous people helped make Canada what it is today.
LeMAD22 its not a dumb narrative, it’s fact. There is evidence that Vikings discovered Canada before Canada was a place. Before Champlain was ever thought of.
I visited Canada in 2018 and fell in love. The diverse culture and the acceptance of thy diversity. Canadians are wonderful people. I live in Puerto Rico 🇵🇷. I hope to travel again and stay longer. 🤗
Dianne Faith you’ll be WELCOME every time, visit Vancouver brith Columbia , extremely expensive but ridiculously beautiful. You won’t regret it
And me who is thinking about moving from Canada to Puerto Rico! Lol
alfred P thank you!'! I will! 💕
All for diversity but trudeau is ruining our great country. Nice to visit. I would rather live in texas though if it wasnt so damn hot.
It's important to remember that the diversity is empirical or de facto, not definitive. This means that while many different people are present in the country, it's not everyone's country and homeland equally. This is a white, British country by identity, we do not consent to changing that or being replaced, and it's genocidally racist to deny this.
Hey! Just wanted to let you know Ottawa was not initially delegated as the capital of Canada. Instead, Kingston ON was established as the capital in 1841 but Canadian forces realized it was way too close to the American border and moved to Ottawa in 1844.
Queen Victoria picked Ottawa as the capital to please the French speaking population.
Montreal and Toronto were also the capital.
I was under the impression that Halifax was the original capitol but was moved further inland as Halifax was too vulnerable to a naval attack.
Hello Kaelyn how you are doing today.
@@overdose8329 They did transfer it to MTL in 1844 because Kingston was to close to the US. But then, they transfer it to Toronto in 1849 after the English burn down the parliament of Montreal in reaction of the decision to give money to the “Canadians” that were victims of the reprisals by the English militia and army after the rebellions of 1837-38 (The lower Canada rebellion act). After that, from 1859 to 1866 Quebec City was the capital of Canada. Then as u said it, in 1867 Queen Victoria chose Ottawa to be the capital of the Dominion of Canada to accommodate both the “Canadian“ and English request, since Ottawa was a bilingual city and place directly at the border of Quebec and Ontario (Eastern and western Canada at the time)
Great video! For a French Canadian who's lived in the US since he was five, I'm way overdue in learning about my country's history. This video was an excellent first step for me. Thank you.
I love the fact there was a beaver war between us and the french
A 72 year long Beaver war.
Or... from where I stand... between us and the British... 2 sides to every coin 😁
I wonder if there's an vids on that xD had never heard of it
Two sides to every coin... funny at that, nickels here have a beaver on them.
There was a third, secret faction: the beavers. Their influence in Canadian affairs continues to the present day.
I'm from Victoria, British Columbia. Born and raised. My mom has british ancestry, and my father has german/blackfoot ancestry.. I'm just so glad they incorporated Vancouver Island into Canada, and didnt exclude us to the U.S.!! 😳😳
@David Scott we are doing great! Kind of a huge population boom and rent raise going on right now, due to how beautiful this city really is; but I'm surviving. 😎
Much love to Canada from the UK. Got family out there in Alberta
yoooo i am a Canadian in Alberta and i
love it here
Alberta seems like the place to be here, I recently moved Down here 2 years ago, so much more money to be made here and nice places to visit!
@@zk_c8076 I moved here two years ago and don’t think I will ever leave, from New Brunswick!
Fort mcmurray is good for work but not much to do down here lol
lived here for a long time, I love alberta here too!
@@zk_c8076 banff has to be my favourite place here!
As a Canadian, I don't mean to be too correcting, but I would like it if more people in both Canada and The United States refer to their native peoples a "Indigenous" people, not Indians. I know that Colombus thought he landed in India and refered to the natives peoples as "Indian", it's just that in my opinion I don't think we should call them that.
Thank you Epimetheus for doing a history video on my beloved nation! ❤
Well said
It’s weird he didn’t mention residential schools
@@KasimirStanley My social studies class focused heavily on first nations history. My province's curriculum certainly covered residential schools.
First nation relation is a huge part of Canadian history.I don't know why he skip over alot of it.
They did in my school
Yea I’m native and in my school they teach us about it and there is a movie about it called Indian horse
Because it only impacted half a percent of the population and had no impact on the future of Canada.
British Columbia is my favourite. 10 mountain ranges, Huge coastline with tons of hidden gems, big ass arid region in the okanogan with beautiful lakes, best skiing in the world, the list goes on. I also love the Alberta rockies and the foothills in Southern Alberta. Basically if you're a mountains or ocean person, I think BC is the best.
Same. Cheers from the Okanagan
Mountains get in the way. You can’t see the view and it takes forever to drive around and through them.
Prairies all the way!
- 007 - found the manitoban/saskatchewanian
@@-007-2 Yeah they "get in they way", they're freakin mountains dude
IT'S NEWFIN-LAND: from a Newfoundlander
I never knew that.
I love learning about our children, we are getting old now and it may be your turn to look after us one day
I say call myself Newfie it’s shorter eh by? What do you call it? I hear people find Newfie offensive I don’t I like it just wintering I haven’t met someone who finds it offensive.
Ay my some people get mad over the stupidest of things.
new fund land
New Finland?🤣
@@Propapanda0213 Kinda like Newfin'land
Learn something new every day, wasn't aware Canada was stretching from quebec to the gulf of mexico, that tripped me out. South part of canada was called lousiana and that explains the french in new orleans, I always wondered about that.
bit silly
@@SunofYork it’s a lot more silly now, couldn’t leave home or work without some commie green pass for that Covid trash, everyone’s till talking about it on Twitter half a decade later.
They arrest you here from defending.yourself from pos woman scammers twice your size trying to kill you with knives, and for letting women in first at the stop, it did NOT END with the natives.
Except that the French territories in North America weren't called Canada at the time you are describing, they were called New France.
@@Frank-Lee-Speeking la nouvelle France, je sais mon vieux.😂😂 Just wasn’t aware or didn’t remember it went down to the Gulf of Mexico, history class was many decades ago.
The merge between Upper and Lower Canada was an attempt to assimilate the French populations (which obviously did not work) and also to feed the growing economy (debt) of the English side that spent a lot on developping an economy, while in the east, it was more about life in the fields or in the woods
Indeed. Lower Canada had no debt when it was forcefully merged with Upper Canada, which had loads. Upon separating the two, Lower Canada was forced to take on half of Upper Canada's debt.
@@louisd.8928 funny how upper canada was under lower canada
Back then, as it still should be nowadays, UP was for up river, and DOWN (you’d guess it) was for down river. Made more sense back then since transport was a water way thing much more than a road thing!
In my feelz ... look at it when coming from the sea. You’ll get it :-)
Exactly, if I remember correctly, Lower Canada has like 95 000$ of debt while Upper Canada had around 1 000 000$ of debt. When they merged the two territories, they merged the debts two so basically french canadians had to pay for the construction of canals in Upper Canada that would make their economy weaker.
Another things is that the population of Lower Canada had a higher population but they both got the same number of deputies at the assembly (which is really undemocratical). When the Upper Canada got more population than Lower, they reclaimed REP BY POP so they got more seats than Lower.
As a very proud Canadian, and Canadian History teacher: you've done a great job. Thanks, I'll use this in class.
@@winstonian88 "Humble" would be another word.
Please consider a critique with your students. The narrator uses derogatory terms for Indigenous peoples in Canada. I hope he will correct it... and it serves as a lesson for students as well.
@Manek Iridius I think this video is a good introduction. In most of my classes in school I was shown a video to show us a topic, and then throughout the year/semester/subject we would dive deeper to what was in that video.
Also, some students (including myself) find videos easier to understand than just reading from a textbook or hearing someone talk
@SNAFUCanada since2015 Love your user name!
@@blackmeinu1 so would humble ;)
This was a very good overview of the whole subject. One small mistake is that the poster you show when you begin talking about World War II is a World War I poster. The soldier has a gun with a bayonet, a weapon that had become obsolete by 1939.
Bayonets were not absolete by WW2. Soldiers still used bayonets in WW2. The bayonet that Commonwealth countries used in WW2 looked like a spike attached to the Lee Enfield Mrk 4 rifle versus the short sword bayonet attached to the Lee Enfield Mrk 1 rifle during WW1. I will give you credit that the poster is a WW1 poster.
8 years of history classes... and this video was just as effective.
I hated Canadian history as it was taught in high school. I think it should be taught in a completely different manor - perhaps getting kids to study their own ancestry and learn about world history as well as Canadian history in a way that is much more interesting to them. Why do we have to teach history as a linear bunch of dates and boring facts. If it was taught as a collection of stories it would encourage students curiosity and maybe they would go on long after high school to learn because they are interested and curious.
@@louiselloyd1523 You went to school in a manor? What would going to a different one do?
@@louiselloyd1523 Living history sites are great for that collection of stories, since you get to talk to people who specialize in the history of that site, rather than someone who has to stick to a curriculum, condense so much teaching into a school year, and make sure to administer tests and homework at the same time.
Not to knock on history teachers, because some of them are quite knowledgeable, but they (a bit unfortunately) have to stick to the curriculum to teach everything on time.
And on a related note, I hated US history for the longest time due to how it was presented to me in my American highschool classes, but I have recently gained a better appreciation for it by spending this summer volunteering at a local fort, and learning about the great military history (of which I am a fan) that occurred near my hometown, and never even knew! I certainly would have been much more interested if I had been taught that there were battles fought a few miles down the road!
I've also gained an interest for the American Civil War (something I usually ignored in favour of learning more about the Napoleonic Wars), since I interpret a post-war Union garrison soldier, and learned a lot about the soldier's life back in the day.
@@louiselloyd1523 it left out the importance of Champlain , Cartier and Cabot
Yep. Wish I paid more attention in my history classes bc this is interesting stuff, but the way it was presented was just horribly confusing and boring lol.
I love Canada. Although I was born in Canada, I spent a large part of my life the United States of America, Canada is a beautiful country.
Excellent Sher Singh! pls. request all the f* desi's to blend into the N American society & not bring their excess baggage to N America, esp. Canada.
Soy chilena y estoy viviendo en Quebec, tu video fue muy útil para mi porque comprendí la importancia cultural de hablar francés aquí. Saludos!!
Merci Maria de voir l’importance de parler français 😁
Muchas gracias para veer porque es importante hablar frances acqui. Nosotros estamos contento que usted esta en Québec!
Désolé des fautes, je ne maitrise pas très bien l'espagnol.
i dont know what ur saying in french, but I think ur saying something good
Newfoundland is great and unique. Also liked Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec. Very friendly people and amazing landscapes.
Very occasionally you also come across an old timer that was born in Newfoundland but not in Canada.
Canada is a wonderful country .It's history is glorious ,people is welcoming. I love Canada by heart.
A good history of Canadian borders but misses a lot of Canadian history that goes beyond defining it's boundaries
squee222 ?What do you want for ten minutes?
left out the concentration camps , mass murder of natives and some other goodies
I love Canada so much that I married a Canadian 😂 now I move there in a few months. Love from Australia! 🇦🇺🇨🇦
Let me guess, the "warm" months? ;)
when you get here, welcome to your new home!
What province are you looking to move to?
A Canadian and an Australian? Please don't breed...
@@Curt-0001 Well i n /b /c there is not much snow and is the most beautiful province in Canada!
I'm a Québécois American and my family emigrated to America in 1899 as a part of the "Grande Hémorragie"! It was so cool to learn about Canada's history and this video was really well done :)
As always, very succinct and well made! As a Canadian, I feel you did a great job. My only constructive feedback would be that the Quebec separatist movement was a much more significant part of Canadian history than shown here, especially at the peak of tensions in the 60's and 70's with the FLQ and that was skipped to my surprise. That aside, well done and I look forward to your next video!
Interesting. Thank you for the great feedback :)
@@EpimetheusHistory No problem! Love your channel and for the record, your coverage of the "Sea People" and Bronze age collapse are the best I've ever seen.
PS to the owner: Thank you for deleting my previous comment even to there was nothing false about it. Sure the example is extremely worst but still you get the right picture because that's what hapenned. If you're about to delete my comment again why don't you delete all the hateful comments made about us the Québécois? Like we're bad people and eveything. It's not really fair but we're used to it :)
@robleeandroid He has skipped a lot of things and some of his informations aren't accurate but the only thing that comes to your mind is the FLQ part. Absolutely grotesque but classic as always. Everything is good to make the Québécois looks evil am I right? Everyone knows here in Québec that the FLQ is described as "terr*rists" by the ROC (rest of canada) which is completely absurd, but of course the english are completely ignorant about mostly everything that is related to us. Its typical, either you hear some rumours, the good old anti-Québécois propagandas or the twisted fake news from your media sources outlets. About the référendum, if you think we lost the 95s referendum by fairness you are truly mistaken, it has been proven by documentaries that the federal interfered during the campaign by creating special secret units with the RCMP to work against the Souverainiste movement and destabilize it. They literally infiltrated the Souverainiste movement and they created tones of propaganda anti-Québec. Sounds like what the N*zis germans did during the third Reich huh, creating a bunch of secret units to destabilize the opposition. Just like the purpose of the G*stapo. We own the Fleuve Saint-Laurent which is the only river that opens to the grand lakes. That's one of the reasons why Canada doesn't want us to get our country. Either way Québec's independence is inevitable because of his location. If it's not in my lifetime, it'll be later. Canada is an artificial country that is doing everything it can to survive and Canada can't survive without Québec. Simple as that. Vive le Québec souverain! ⚜️⚜️⚜️
@@waitwho3074 I said the Separatist Movement in general was (and is) a significant part of our history - I did not only mention the FLQ. To mention one without the other would be absurd though. You've made a giant leap from one small piece of feedback.
@robleeandroid Agreed
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I love being a Newfoundlander. It's pretty cool being able to accurately say I'm a second-gen Canadian while being an eighth-gen Newfoundlander.
Canada's oldest and most colonial province but still Canada's youngest and coolest province at the same time.
@Abel Desalegn after 500+ years of being kept as owned servants to Britain and later Canada, there forms a defeatist attitude whereby parents actively tell their kids "go away to the mainland, there's nothing here for you".
Only difference between Newfoundland and Ireland is Ireland got their independence.
I have an aunt who moved to Toronto about 40 years ago. She worked in a factory her whole life, model employee. Just before retirement she was told "we're moving the shop to Mexico. You can move with us but you'll work for about $2/hr.
She said "no thanks" and came home to Newfoundland, losing her pension she paid into her whole life.
Tell me again about the better opportunities in Ontario?
NLJosh83 Oldest province my ass, y’all aren’t even 100 years old within this nation yet. Surprised Newfoundland isn’t a territory honestly.
@@yoda5280 "Canada's oldest and most colonial province but still Canada's youngest and coolest province at the same time."
Please read the whole sentence next time.
Canada as we know it is only not quite 153 years old yet, whereas John Cabot claimed it for England in 1497, and he called it the "New Founde Land", or "Terra Nova" in Portugese. It's well over 500 years old as a colony, yet 71 years old a a Canadian province. Oldest and youngest at the same time.
That's not including the Norse Vikings that were there an estimated 500 years before that.
It's not a territory because A) we wouldn't stand for it; and B) Canada gets to make more money off us as a province that pays into equalization. Territories are not part of the equalization formula.
NLJosh83 “Canadas oldest and most colonial province,” are you even reading what you write? That literally makes 0 sense. It wasn’t a P R O V I N C E until the late 40’s. “Canadas coolest province,” what the hell is there in Newfoundland that’s better than any other province? Please explain, I’d love to have you reason with me as to how Newfoundland, a province with a depleting population due to the ever growing job shortages (which will be even worse now that the economy is on a full downwards trajectory) is possibly cooler than somewhere like Ontario? (And no, I’m not an Ontarian).
Being Canadas newest province isn’t really something to be “proud” of either. I suppose you could be proud that you technically were a country for a period of time until the end of the Second World War, but even then, you’re along the lines of forgotten when it comes to the broad overlook when one sees Canada.
@@yoda5280 "Canada's oldest and most colonial province but still Canada's youngest and coolest province at the same time." it's a paradox, and I'm not going to apologize if you just don't get it. British Colonies in North America were often called provinces long before Canada became a thing, and Newfoundland is the oldest colony in North America.
Many things that were oldest or first in all of North America happened right here, to the point where spoken English resembles that of the British Isles or heavily influenced by French more so than American or Canadian English, as is the case in other parts of Canada. For example: what's the oldest civil police force in North America? The RNC.
Late 1940s? 1 April 1949 to be exact.
Canada's coolest province? Well, we have Inuit, Innu, people of mixed descent, Micmacs, an extinct tribe of Beothuk indians, and a mixture of European ancestry all wrapped up in a native population package similar in size to the city of Hamilton. Built in diversity in a small number of people. With a a population density of 1.4 people per square kilometre, lots of room to roam, especially with the majority of land being public.
The declining population is due to a defeatist attitude that is instilled upon NL children from birth that "there's nothing here for you, you have to move away from here", similar to the attitude you seem to have. Couple that with an aging population and low birth rates (two generations ago it was all big families, now many are choosing to not have kids anymore) ther's not much chance for growth. The economy's current downward trajectory is mainly following the price of oil, which is something NL has no control over, just like Alberta. Chief difference is that our job losses aren't so bad because offshore oil doesn't require nearly as much labour that land-based oil extraction does.
Ontario is, for all intents and purposes, more American than Canadian. Show anyone a picture of a Main St. in Indiana and a Main St. in Southern Ontario with no flags, metric signage or license plates to telltale, and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. The Fort of York would have fallen to the Americans if it wasn't for the Newfoundland Regiment showing up and defeating them, sending them back across Lake Ontario. There's a statue commemorating this at the bottom of Bathurst Street in Toronto.
"you technically were a country for a period of time until the end of the Second World War"
Good summary! I like the red maple leaf with the blue side bars on either side of the flag instead of the red side bars; these would be a nod to the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans as well as a nod to the red white and blue of the Union Jack.
Laurie I hope my comment didn't sound as a form of privacy invasion your comment tells of a wonderful woman with a beautiful heart which led me to comment I don't normally write in the comment section but I think you deserve this compliment. If you don’t mind can we be friends? Thanks God bless you….🌹🌹
Québec province is clearly the creative part of Canada. The culture, the food, the architecture and even their cities are distinctive. Québec is self-made and it shows.
The rest of Canada is just a USA 2.0. A bunch of suburban cities that piggybacks United-States for practically everything.
After spending time across Canada, Québec province is definitely the real deal.
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The most distinctly inaccurate comment of Canada I've ever heard. From a Canadian, that was born and raised in BC, lived in ON and visited Quebec, and also lived in California. You, "sir" know not of what you speak.
@@sailorgirl2017 From a foreigner’s point of vue, English Canada has no cultural identity. It’s literally a branch plant culture. A generic copy of United-States.
Without Québec, Canada becomes the 51 State of America.
@@californiabob3231 Key point...foreigner...You do realize that the entire world views Canada as a completely separate identity from the US. You need only travel outside your country "Bob". The change in tone, warmth and welcoming is very apparent. Canadians are respected, welcomed and adored around the world. Americans...not so much. Hate to burst your American Exceptionalist bubble.
“The Hudson Bay Company is still in existence today, mainly as a retail store chain sharing the same name” I should not have laughed at that as hard as I did 🤣🤣🤣
especially with the fact that it is now owned by americans.. :D
And they call themself The Bay. Wow!!!, Genious!!,,
and sadly the HBC retail store is a sad shadow of it's former self. They no longer sell beaver pelts. LOL
The bay is going the way of sears now
Canada is awesome 🔥
no, it's cucked
Except for New Brunswick
@@Lyle-xc9pg you've probably never been out of your shitty little town you inbred, banjo-picking mutt.
@@Lyle-xc9pg You sound like a hateful American. Please don't ever come to Canada. Hateful souls like you don't belong in my country!!
PROUD TO BE CANADIAN!, Oh god do I hope that not every canadian is like you. Anyway, what does canada have that I need... absolutely nothing
BTW, that username is probably illegal in your country
It was soo interesting to watch and listen! Thanks a lot!
I used to live in Toronto and it’s a good Metropolis to live in for the youth. If I come back to Canada I rather be in Quebec because it’s more Latin. As a Latino I used to get along more with the French- Canadians.
I'm German and I'd love to visit Québec. Especially Québec-City and Montréal 😍
Sorry toronto is the etthnic zone
Many Germans prefer Whitehorse. In, the summer, it has almost 22 hours of daylight (land of the midnight sun) and incredible, undiscribable, unblemished nature.
If you ever do you have to vist old town or something I forget what its called
@@terry.ggalliard6224 Have you been to Montreal? There you go
Hello Julian
Thank you for making good content like this. I like the alternative flags in exactly the numerical order they are presented in. The best Canadian Province to live in is the one you’re from, but I enjoy visiting Quebec the best, followed by British Columbia.
Did you try the Poutine? :D
Hi how are you doing
Let’s all appreciate the hard work that goes into making these videos!
You should have included Residential Schools. It such an devastating time for First Nation people. Residential Schools are rarely talked about.
The question of Quebecois autonomy remains a complicator of Canadian life. Visited Quebec, noted that one almost never sees the Canadian flag, while the provincial one is everywhere. And most folks speak French in daily life (with a substantial number bilingual), while the rest of Canada is unmoveably monolingual in English. Quebec is a distinct, self-conscious nation within a nation, and the final chapter hasn't been written yet.
Watching this makes me feel grateful for being born in Canada at the time that I was. Thanks for a nice 10 mins recap. Cheers. 🌿
You damned right!! Tu peux être sûr!!
Hello Jina how are you doing today.
I love Totonto. I preferred the new Canadian flag now. Thanks for the heroes that started to fight fir the freedom of Canada and united the different provinces into a one country. I am proud as a Canadian citizen and enjoyed living in Toronto. I love visiting the many lovely cities and beautiful countryside of Canada.
Mila I hope my comment didn't sound as a form of privacy invasion your comment tells of a wonderful woman with a beautiful heart which led me to comment I don't normally write in the comment section but I think you deserve this compliment. If you don’t mind can we be friends? Thanks God bless you….🌹🌹
One of the most loved countries of the planet. Congratulations dear canadians you rock and your country will be forever our favorite place for vacation. Greetings from México.
Hola thank you
Hey ! Mexico's great too ! Beautiful and a nicer weather!
Flag number 4, to me looks cool, but of course I need to go with the iconic present Canadian flag 🇨🇦
Flag 4 look very similar to the flag of Utrecht stad (city), but without the maple leaf and the red and white inverted. Greetings from the Netherlands.
You should google up the ''Canadian duality flag''. The colors of liberty are present and the small blue stripes can be seen as the french-canadian population. Love those stripes haha
Great vid. Except the "indians" and the "eskimo" stuff already covered by many people. One of the main reason that Canada stayed with the British is that the crown gave back a lot of autonomy and religious rights and such to the french people. In case of loyalist, of course a lot came, but there is also a lot of "americans" who settled inside Canada not knowing they crossed the border, notably in the eastern township in Québec. NewFoundland stayed with the UK after the Constitution act and was transfered by Canada only after WW2 (you said it, but it wasnt on the map prior). Doing so, they draw the new border of Labrador and Québec province with the watershed line. To this day, some people from Québec are still salty with that, since later a lot of ressources were found in the countryside. Fun fact, the mapple leaf on the canadian flag is not the mapple leaf indigenous of Canada, but one from Norway... The constitution of 1982 saw the betrayal of the english province to the province of Québec. They indeed decided the final form and signed the constitution during the night while the PM of Québec was sleeping. To this day, Québec never sign it. Thanks for the last second of the video when you spoke about Québec. Your channel is great.
I was born 3 years after WW2 near the German border and promptly got polio in one foot. We came to Canada when I was four and settled near Niagara Falls where we have the best fruit source and best weather (lucky) in the country.
I've seen this country a few times and I fell in love with the mountains in the west. Thank goodness we now live in a modern golden age here with a superior social net.
I'm embarrassed to admit that I know very little about the history of Canada. This was very informative and I appreciate the history lesson 😉
The only history you need to know is that if it wasnt for the chinese inventing gun powder, europeans will never conquer Canada or America
If only theres a time machine? I'd destroy the maker of that gun powder, and I'll rewrite the history and introduce that gun powder to the natives before the invasion of europeans
@nze the Chinese never used gun powder as a weapon, they used it for fireworks. The indigenous population never needed gun powder as the Americas where extremely fruitful with game(large reason why some "tribes" never formed settlements). The larger issue with the settlement of the Americans was the introduction to smallpox and other diseases. Prior to the settlement the Amercias population could have rivaled Europe, even with gun powder the population was sick and dieing from something foreign to them. A big example is the Spanish conquest into the central America and the Aztec population.
@@rommeldude1 but there isn't one, so back to bumming smokes and change for you.
@@17hanke26 thats the point, if the chinese never invented gun powder, no ammu nation for the whites
Epimetheus I enjoyed the Short History of Canada that you brought to us through this Video.It is not meant to be comprehensive but still gives us an outline which included the most important events in Canadian History bring us down to Canada today. Thank you for the well done Narration and the effort and research to put this together.
Hey, your pronunciation of Jacques Cartier was pretty good man! Thanks for this great video - I feel slightly less uneducated about the country I currently live in now. (I didn't even know where the Hudson Bay was)
Awesome! Glad you liked it Barris!
This is Barris! - French History how can you not know where the Hudson Bay was ? lol
New to Canada and tried learning the history of this beautiful country.
I love everything about Canada.❤❤
Rich history
Very interesting. I had forgotten a lot about our history. I intend to take a look deeper... Thank you for the short version... NB, CA
It would be awesome if you did a "lost history" video, for example the Sahara goes through wet and dry periods every 20,000 years, the last wet period ended 8,000 years ago with the shifting monsoon rains.. The devastated survivors had to leave the now desert Sahara causing a great migrations of Africas superior minds at the time to places like Egypt.. Just imagine the lost civilizations and history buried under a world of sand.
@Snaggle Toothed Perhaps they were significantly advanced, the harsh desert conditions doesn't enable much preservation (S/N studies show the Sahara went from green to 90% desert in approximately 200 years, most societies throughout world history would've been hard pressed to not only escape such a catastrophe with there lives but also trying to persevere whatever history they had).. And as I stated the sands of the Sahara and many other factors would have completely erased almost all evidence and buried it in meters of sand (likely after wearing the structures down by the elements).. We, (humans as a collective) don't know everything.. If we could go back in the far past we would know for certain and maybe some archaeologist or historians in the future will be able to find some tattered remnants.. Either way, at the moment we only have questions and speculation.
Yes! Expecially the last ice age. All of human existence was whittled down to less that 100,000. Ultimate comeback story
I love how you covered the First Nations history from contact. Since you did. Here are 10 things Canadians should know about the Treaties: 🇨🇦
1. If you are a Canadian, know you are a signatory to a Treaty. If you are a settler (i.e. non-Indigenous), know you are a benefactor of the Treaty.
2. Read the Treaty. Know which Treaty territory you are on. That is the true Canadian history.
3. Know that the Treaty it’s not just an Indigenous peoples agreement. Treaties are solemn agreements between people. We are all Treaty peoples. Know that treaties are the foundation of Canada.
4. The Treaty is a reciprocal treaty, an equal treaty for co-existence. It was an agreement between the British Crown and Indigenous peoples. First Nations leaders believed they were entering into a trust relationship with the representative of the British Crown. They considered the Treaty a mutual trust agreement to live in peace.
5. Non-native people are benefactors of those treaties because they are receiving the benefits and profits of the resources from native land immediately after the signing of Treaties. There are billions of dollars coming out of traditional territories, and it never stays in the territory. These real costs of resource extraction, in turn, are borne by the people and communities who have lived here all along. Today, most are living in extreme poverty.
6. First Nations never violated the treaty. The Treaty is a sacred promise that was made with the Creator and cannot be taken back. This is the foundation that the Treaty cannot be “thrown out” or reneged on. “For as long as the grass grows, the rivers flow and the sun shines.”
7. First Nations have never surrendered their land. Assurances were made by the Crown that land and resource use by the Indigenous peoples would continue, and that the use of land for settlers would be limited to agriculture. From a quote of Treaty 6 ““the government said that we would live together, that I am not here to take away what you have now…I am here to borrow the land…to the depth of a plough…that is how much I want.”
8. The federal government has a fiduciary responsibility with First Nations who entered into Treaty. In plain terms, it’s similar to the responsibility that a corporation has to its shareholders. The Canadian government’s shareholders are First Nations and it has a duty, a legal responsibility to them. For allowing settlers to live among the Indigenous inhabitants, the Treaty was to ensure peace and goodwill between Indigenous people and the Crown, in exchange for the Queen’s “bounty and benevolence.”
9. When reading the Treaty, you’ll never come across the word “ownership”, because no one can own the land. The land owns its inhabitants. The Indigenous people were given the sacred responsibility as caretaker of the land. At no point that the parties of treaty discussed the concepts of land surrender or sale.
10. According to the Treaty, First Nations will always have a right to the land to hunt, fish and forage and the Treaty and Aboriginal Right is further protected under Section 35 of the Canadian Constitution. As long as industrial development continues to take place on these lands without consent, these Constitutional rights are being violated.
Via WC Native News
"Learning about Treaties in tar sands territory"
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I'll have to check the treaty out, thanks for bringing this to my attention!
@@JavRexgteneg2pIift there is plenty of treaties around Canada.
For my Covid project, I did my family history and I have family members genratiosn back from like every aspect of this video. I have a few Scotts who came over to fight for the British in the civil american war then fled to Ontario. I have one English ancestor who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company as a surveyor. He married a Cree woman and their grandchildren were part of Louis Riel's rebellion, yes I'm Métis. I also have 6 ancestor who were among the first settlers in Quebec.
Scots are British btw
HOLY CRAP. That is one beautiful map. Much respect!
Love this. Easy to understand. And well formatted.
Canada and Canadians are the best. They must know how lucky they are to be so well governed, to have breath taking scenery. Canada has everything in providing a good life. Awesome!!!
Thank you cheers❤🇨🇦
Thanks so much for this! Brilliant information 👏