Ep 5 - Consequences of Confederation - Indigenous People, Police and Western Exp
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Episode Five - Indigenous People, Police and Western Expansion
This episode features History Professor Shelley Gavigan, Senior Scholar and Professor Emerita Osgoode Hall Law School at Toronto’s York University as she discusses Canada’s relationship with its Indigenous People and how it formed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as the country expanded its settlements in the West.
Consequences of Confederation is a 5-part video series featuring historians from York University. It explores a selection of outcomes of the 1867 British North America Act, the agreement among British colonies to form a new nation-state in North America.
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