Canada is proud of being a multicultural country. We try to respect many ways of doing things, and many different beliefs, and live together in peace.

A race-based fee that was charged for Chinese who entered Canada. The Government of Canada apologized for this in 2006.

In Canada, men and women are equal under the law. Violence against women is also a crime. This includes domestic violence, honor killings or female genital cutting, which are all crimes in Canada.

The idea that people who live in Canada can have different cultural traditions, and the country can still be united.

1935 - 1940: Governer General of Canada who believed in Unity in Diversity

Largest religious group in Canada. Majority are Catholic, second largest group is Protestant.

When a person marries someone of the same gender or sex (e.g. a woman marrying a woman). Gay marriage is legal in Canada.

People of African origin in the 1780s, who escaped slavery in the U.S.A. by coming to Canada.

A Canadian Olympian who is descendent of black Loyalists.

Canada allowed refugees who wanted to leave Communism (e.g. from Hungary) to settle in Canada.

Over 50,000 Vietnamese who wanted to leave Communist North Vietnam came as refugees to Canada.

Multiculturalism.

1 million.

1914 - 1920: Over 8,000 Austrian and Hungarian immigrants to Canada were forced into labour camps.

The movement to allow women the right to vote.

The leader of the women's suffrage movement in Canada. The first Canadian woman to practice medicine.

1940: She helped the women of Quebec to get the vote.

1921: She was the first woman to be a Member of Parliament (MP).

1988: Canada apologized for treating Japanese Canadians who lived in British Columbia like enemies during World War 2.