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Originally Posted by ali#1
There has never been slavery in Canada while Canada has been a country.
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Depends what you classify as a country.
Canada has been a constitutional monarchy since 1534, under both French and then British rule. It was not an independent kingdom until 1867 and at that time we became a Dominion, but we still had some British controls and political input until 1982 when we got the constitution, and therefore was when we officially became a "country on our own right", but we have been known as "Canada" long before then, known as Upper and Lower Canada. Furthermore, Canada in 1867 didn't include Alberta or Saskatchewan, who didn't join until 1905, NFLD until 1949, and PEI in 1871.
And by 1867, slavery had been eliminated in the US, and it had already been abolished in all British colonies, and therefore Canada by 1833. So if you consider Upper and Lower Canada a country, which it was then, then yes we had slavery.
http://www.parl.gc.ca/About/Senate/M...archy_00-e.htm
Canada is a constitutional monarchy. Since 1534, when the King of France claimed possession of what is now Canada, the history of our country has been marked by the reigns of an uninterrupted succession of monarchs, both French and British, who have had a significant influence on our country's development.