The American Revolution: The Marginalization Of Canada

For thousands of years Canada was occupied by a mixture of mongoloid peoples in different development stages between Late Paleolithic to Late Neolithic who had arrived thousands of years ago from Asia. The first contact with Europeans was when viking settlers tried to establish a logging settlement in Newfoundland. The vikings left for unknown reasons, possibly because the natives were hostile to viking presence.

In the 15th century European explorers began to come to Canada and major French and English settlements began to appear during the 16th century. Canada was colonized for the extremely profitable fur trade that was possible because most of Canadian land had experienced little agriculture and even less intensification of agriculture.
Canada was heavily involved in the American Revolution because it was at the time simply British North America and any war that Britain fought, Canada was by default involved in. In 1812 another major war in North America occurred. During the Napoleonic Wars, Britain had not allowed America to properly continue it's maritime trade. This frustrated America and lead them to declare war. Britain had little troops in Canada prepared to fight and heavily relied on the support of Native Americans. The Americans had the initial victories in the war and pushed into Canada, resulting in the Sacking of York (now Toronto). They failed to hold their positions and the British eventually drove them out and pushed into America. By 1814 they had reached and burned Washington but were driven out later. The Treaty of Ghent in on December 24, 1814 returned all lands to how they had been in 1812 before the
In 1867 Canada became a country and united many British colonies in North America as provinces. Since 1867 to 1900, Canada has industrialized, immigrants have come and more provinces have joined the confederation. Newfoundland is the only British Colony in Northern North America to not have joined Confederation in 1900. After confederation, a railway spanning from East to West coast called the Canadian Pacific Railway was created. This was the first step to Canada's westward expansion. Canada feared that the much larger United States would invade the sparsely populated Canadian West. The government began to recruit immigrants from many countries to settle in Canada's West, advertising the fertile land, economic opportunity and religious freedom available in Canada. This was resisted by the natives and the Metis and culminated in the Red River Rebellion in 1969. After Canada suppressed the rebellion, it was free to expand Westward.

From 1896 to 1911 Sir Wilfred Laurier from the Liberal Party was Prime Minister of Canada. At this time Liberal meant supporting freer trade (still almost a hundred years until actual free trade) and less government interference in the economy. This made the liberal party very popular during prosperous times because when businesses are booming, the less government management, the longer