Amongst notable Metis people are television actor Tom Jackson

A photochrome postcard showing downtown Montreal, circa 1910. Canada's 
population became urbanized during the 20th century. 
The Alaska boundary dispute, simmering since the Alaska purchase of 
1867, became critical when gold was discovered in the Yukon during the late 
1890s, with the U.S. controlling all the possible ports of entry. Canada argued its 
boundary included the port of Skagway. The dispute went to arbitration in 1903, 
but the British delegate sided with the Americans, angering Canadians who felt the 
British had betrayed Canadian interests to curry favour with the U.S. 

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In the 1 890s, legal experts codified a framework of criminal law, 
culminating in the Criminal Code, 1892. This solidified the liberal ideal of 
"equality before the law" in a way that made an abstract principle into a tangible 
reality for every adult Canadian. Wilfrid Laurier who served 1896-1911 as the 
Seventh Prime Minister of Canada felt Canada was on the verge of becoming a 
world power, and declared that the 20th century would "belong to Canada Laurier 
signed a reciprocity treaty with the U.S. that would lower tariffs in both directions. 
Conservatives under Robert Borden denounced it, saying it would integrate 
Canada's economy into that of the U.S. and loosen ties with Britain. The 
Conservative party won the Canadian federal election, 1911. 
In 1873 John A. Macdonald (First Prime Minister of Canada) created the 
North-West Mounted Police (now the Royal Canadian Mounted Police) to help 
police the Northwest Territories. 
Specifically the Mounties were to assert Canadian sovereignty over 
possible American encroachments into the sparsely populated land. 
The Mounties first large-scale mission was to suppress the second 
independence movement by Manitoba's Metis, a mixed blood people of joint First 
Nations and European descent, who originated in the mid-17th century. The desire 
for independence erupted in the Red River Rebellion in 1869 and the later North-
West Rebellion in 1885 led by Louis Riel. Suppressing the Rebellion was Canada's 
first independent military action. It cost about $5 million and demonstrated the 
need to complete the Canadian Pacific Railway. It guaranteed Anglophone control 
of the Prairies, and demonstrated the national government was capable of decisive 
action. However, it lost the Conservative Party most of their support in Quebec and 
led to permanent distrust of the Anglophone community on the part of the 
Francophones.