History Dates - Quebec Sec IV Ministry Exam

Act of Union

1840

Tabling of the Bagot Commission Report

1844

Founding of the Institut Canadien

1844

Publication of History of Canada: From the time of its Discovery to the Union Year

1845-1848

Massive Irish Immigration

1845-1847

Burning of the Parliament Building in Montreal

1849

Withdrawal of Women’s Right to Vote

1849

Reciprocity Treaty

1854-1866

Abolition of the Seigneurial System

1854

Founding of the Grand Trunk Railway Company

1852

Founding of the first French-language university in North America

1852

Coming into force of the Civil Code of Lower Canada

1866

Adoption of the British North America (BNA) Act

1867

First Métis Uprising

1869

Creation of the Northwest Territories

1870

Legalization of Unions

1872

Abolition of the Department of Public Instruction

1875

Hanging of Louis Riel

1885

Adoption of the Indian Act

1876

Founding of the Montreal Local Council of Women

1893

Founding of the École littéraire de Montréal

1895

Election of Laurier’s Liberal government

1896

Boer War

1899-1902

Founding of the first Caisse Populaire

1900

Publication of A Treatise on Everyday Law

1902

First Movie Theatre in Montreal

1906

Founding of the École des Hautes Études Commerciales

1907

Opening up to Abitibi Colonization

1910

Annexation of the District of Ungava to Quebec

1912

Creation of the 22nd French-Canadian Batallion

1914

First World War

1914-1918

Battle of Vimy Ridge

1917

Conscription Crisis

1917

Women Given the right to vote in Canada

1918

Founding of the Conféderation des travailleurs catholiques du Canada

1921

Judgement of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of London on the Labrador Border

1927

Stock Market Crash

1929

Statute of Westminster

1931

Roosevelt’s New Deal

1933

First residential school in Quebec

1934

Founding of the Bank of Canada

1935

Creation of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

1936

Second World War

1939-1945

Women given the right to vote in Quebec

1940

Conscription plebiscite

1942

Normandy Landing (D-Day)

1944

Quebec Conferences

1943-1944

Adoption of the Act respecting compulsory school attendance

1943

Surrender of Germany and Japan/End of WWII

1945

Publication of the Refus Global

1948

Asbestos Strike

1949

Newfoundland joins Canada

1949

Korean War

1950-1953

Advent of Television

1952

Introduction of provincial income tax

1954

Richard Riot

1955

Opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway

1959

Publication of Les insolences du frère Untel

1960

Election of Quebec’s first female MNA

1961

Nationalization of Electricity

1962

Adoption of the Act respecting the legal capacity of married women

1964

Creation of CEGEPs

1967

World Fair/Expo 67

1967

State Visit of Charles de Gaulle

1967

Creation of the Quebec University Network

1968

Decriminalization of contraception, therapeutic abortion and homosexuality

1969

Granting right of vote to Indigenous Peoples in Quebec

1969

October Crisis

1970

Adoption of the Health Insurance Act

1970

Common Front of State Employees

1972

Oil Crisis

1973

Creation of the Council on the Status of Women

1973

Creation of the Quebec Native Women’s Association

1974

James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement

1975

Adoption of the Quebec Charter on Human Rights and Freedoms

1975

Adoption of Bill 101

1977

Application of the Rand Formula in Quebec

1977

Adoption of the Act Respecting Labour Standards

1979

First Referendum on Sovereignty

1980

Proclamation of the Constitution Act

1982

Recognition of the Indigenous Nations and their rights by the Quebec government

1985

Montreal Protocol

1987

Decriminalization of Abortion

1988

Ecole Polytechnique Massacre

1989

Fall of the Berlin Wall

1989

Meech Lake Accord

1990

Oka Crisis

1990

Charlottetown Accord

1992

Coming into force of NAFTA

1994

Second Referendum on Sovereignty

1995

Creation of Linguistic School Boards

1996

Creation of Nunavut

1999

Reorganization of Quebec municipalities

2000-2006

9/11

2001

Summit of the Americas

2001

First civil union of homosexual spouses in Quebec

2002

Signature of the Paix des Braves

2002

Inauguration of the Grande Bibliotheque

2005

Recognition of the Quebec Nation in the House of Commons

2006

UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

2007