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Canada has always been a land of Magic. When Europeans arrived, it was evident to the Witches and Wizards among them that Magic was endemic to this New World. The French witches and wizards who accompanied the settlers of the French North American Empire answered to the Académie Royale des Sorciers, until the Treaty of Utrecht 1713, when french-canadian Witches and Wizards generally moved to Quebec or back to France. French-Canadian (Habitant) Magi were entitled to attend L’ Académie de Beauxbatons for schooling under Les Accordes de Frontenac, something which continues to be true to this day. In 1693 the Magical Congress of the United States of America was founded by Josiah Jackson; this evidently self-prophetic governing body assumed authority for the thirteen British colonies south of the Saint Lawrence. British Magi, emigrating to Newfoundland or the former Acadia, came under the authority of the newly organized British Ministry of Magic, whose first Minister, Ulick Gamp, was unable (or unwilling) to curb the excesses of The Great Upheaval. Many Acadian Magi either emigrated to the Louisiana Territories, or (again) returned to France. In 1763, France ceded the rest of New France, except the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, to Great Britain and Spain at the Treaty of Paris, which had ended the Muggle French and Indian War in North America. Britain received Canada, Acadia, and the parts of French Louisiana which lay east of the Mississippi. In 1775, with the Independence of Britain’s former American Colonies, many Royalist Magi fled north to the Ministry’s Canadian territories. While American wizards had technically decided to stay out of the fighting, and the British Ministry decided against Intervention, many Wizards who didn’t wish to give up their ties to London moved to Canada… mostly to Ontario and Nova Scotia. “Ministry Loyalist” Witches and Wizards became a mainstay of a new governing body; The Magical Dominion of Canada was organized, a wizard’s council headed by a Viceroy who coordinated with the Ministry in London. In 1803, the government of France divested itself of it’s Louisiana territories, permanently ending French colonial efforts on the North American mainland. Louisianan Magi either accepted MACUSA’s authority, moved north and became subjects of the British Ministry, or emigrated back to France, with a very few families moving to the small St. Lawrence islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. When the United States invaded Canada in 1812, American wizards (unofficially, of course) accompanied the invading armies. Unusually, many Canadian Magi were covertly involved with the defense of their way of life. Much of the MDoC’s Wizard’s Council were First Nations magic workers. Among them, Thayendanegea, a Mohawk medicine father, built strong ties with the London Ministry. Unwilling to allow the MACUSA to dictate the cultural and magical environment of Canada, he brokered an agreement to allow all Canadian wizards to either train their children locally or in Britain, instead of sending them to the American School. In reciprocity, they would aid and defend the Ministry, who had decided not to “Sit This One Out”. The Thayendanegea Accords were sealed with an Unbreakable Vow, and because Thayendanegea was one of the heads of the Wizard’s Council in Canada, the Accords continued to bind the subsequent governments. With the aid of the Ministry Loyalists and the First Nations, the invasion was repulsed, and the MACUSA’s authority (and laws) restricted to the territory of the United States. The muggle Crown’s Law-Keepers worked more closely with Aurors than was acceptable in almost any other nation, not excepting Britain itself. William Cornelius VanHorne Jr. entered service with the British Ministry directly upon graduating from school in 1889. An American Muggle-born at Ilvermorny, by the time he’d graduated he’d become disenchanted with many of the American views towards muggles. He had been forced to retroactively ‘die when five years old’ in order to preserve the International Statute of Secrecy, and even though he’d retained contact with his father, his mother, brother and sister had all been Obliviated. He’d been assigned to the MDoC in 1900, and his powerful ability, steady judgment, and ability to establish rapport between the disparate magical communities of Canada led to his election to the Dominion Council by 1907. In 1910, he was made Viceroy of the Magical Dominion of Canada. In 1925, in the wake of Canadian dissatisfaction over British Ministry handling of the muggle war, he organized the Canadian dispute with Minister Archer Evermonde over the Non-Involvement Act; faced with the Ministry’s intransigence, he led the break with London in 1925. He was elected the first independent Canadian Minister for Magic, his tenure as Minister extending from 1910 to 1950. In 1944, in the face of the muggle Prime Minister’s desperate pleas, British Minister Leonard Spencer-Moon invoked the Reciprocity section of the Accords; Minister VanHorne personally led a group of Canadian Warlocks, joining Leonard Spencer-Moon’s SOE Auror Group. He became the only sitting Minister other than Evangeline Orpington to go personally into battle. He faced censure upon his return, but retained the Chair, until his Resignation just six years later. Upon stepping down, he was placed in charge of the MDoC’s Western Division, headquartered in Mount Niblock, Alberta. Young Canadian Magi generally start school a year early, at the age of Ten; either at a Preparatory Academy, or a White Circle. If teachers judge it appropriate, and with the consent of the student’s parents, they may enroll the student’s name as a Crown Dependent under the Thayendanegea Reciprocity Accords. Referred students become eligible to receive an enrollment Letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Otherwise, Canadian students generally continue their studies at Mount Greylock, or at a Canadian College. As always, Quebecois students of Habitant lineage are eligible to attend L’ Académie de Beauxbatons under the Frontenac Accords. The National Ministry is headquartered underneath Mount Royal, in Montreal, Canada. Since 1950, the Minister of the Magical Dominion of Canada has been Magistrix Marguerite Sainte-Claire.
“Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right." -Albus Dumbledore,
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
