4.20

**Standard 4.21> **

=Identify when Canada became an independent nation and explain how independence was achieved. =

Canada was peacefully achieved independence in 1867 with the British North America Act.

 Click here to read the British North America Act.

Click here for a timeline of Canada's independence.

For historical background, read about the [|United Empire Loyalists], a group of 8000 settlers who came to Canada after the American Revolution because they wanted to retain allegiance to England.