A Timeline of Human Rights Development in Canada
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Grade 9 Social Studies
A Timeline of Human Rights Development in Canada
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Manitoba women become the first in Canada to win the rights to vote and to hold provincial office.
January 28th, 1916
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All female citizens aged 21 and over become eligible to vote in Canadian federal elections.
May 24th, 1918
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Women in Canada gain the right to hold a seat in the House of Commons
July, 1919
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The Dominion Elections Act gives the right to vote in federal elections to all adult
Canadians, male and female (however, the federal vote is not given to First Nations and
Inuit peoples nor to minorities).
1920
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Women in Canada gain the right to hold a seat in the Senate.
1929
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Manitoba passes a Libel Act that allows action to stop personal attacks based on race or religion that
expose people to hatred, contempt, or ridicule.
1934
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Women in Quebec gain the right to vote in provincial elections.
1940
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The Second World War ends and the United Nations is founded. Canada is one of the
original members.
September 2nd, 1945
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is signed.
December 10, 1948
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The Federal Elections Act is changed so that race is no longer grounds for exclusion from voting in federal
elections.
1948
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Equal Pay for Equal Work is adopted in Manitoba, preventing discrimination in salary based on gender.
1956
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Prime Minister John Diefenbaker brings in the Canadian Bill of Rights.
August 10, 1960
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First Nations people receive the unrestricted right to vote in federal elections.
1960
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The last executions take place in Canada.
1962
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Laws requiring separate schools for Blacks in Ontario are removed.
1964
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The Criminal Code is amended to decriminalize homosexuality.
1968
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The Criminal Code makes it a crime to advocate genocide or publicly incite hatred against people because of their race,
colour, religion, or ethnic identity.
1971
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Capital punishment is removed as a penalty for crime in Canada.
1976
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The federal government passes the Canadian Human Rights Act and sets up the Human Rights Commission.
1977
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The Immigration Act removes all restrictive regulations based on ”nationality, citizenship, ethnic group, occupation,
class, or geographical area of origin.”
1977
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The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms becomes part of Canada’s Constitution.
April 17, 1982
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Prime Minister Brian Mulroney acknowledges Canada’s wrongful actions against Japanese Canadians during the Second World War and offers a compensation program.
September 22, 1988
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The federal government announces a five-year national plan to help bring persons with disabilities into society’s
mainstream.
1991
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Sexual orientation is added as grounds for discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights Act.
June 20, 1996
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The federal government recognizes and apologizes to those who experienced physical and sexual abuse at Indian residential schools, and acknowledges its role in the development and
administration of residential schools for First Nations children.
January 7, 1998
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Canada’s Extradition Act states that Canada will refuse to forcibly return anyone to any country that wants to punish that person in a way that violates their human rights. The territory of Nunavut was
created. As of 2003, most people living here are Inuit.
1999
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The federal government introduced its same-sex marriage bill in the House of Commons, setting the stage so that gay
people in Canada may legally marry.
February 1, 2005
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The federal government agrees to pay $1.9 billion to former students of residential schools as a compensation for the
abuses and assimilation they suffered.
May 10, 2006
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On behalf of the Canadian federal government, Prime Minister Stephen Harper offers an apology to all the
survivors of residential schools.
June 11, 2008