French-English Relations

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
03/19/1763	Royal Proclamation	Signed in 1763. meant to protect Natives from uncontrolled white settlements.
03/19/1766	Samuel Hearne	He joined the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) and first European to reach the Arctic Ocean in 1766.
03/19/1774	Quebec Act	Signed in 1774, intended to reorganize the way these British territories were governed
03/19/1812	War of 1812	The war between the United States and Great Britain from 1812 to 1815
03/19/1812	General Isaac Brock	Military commander, administrator of Upper Canada. hero of the battle of Queenston Heights in 1812
07/01/1867	Confederation	T he union of the British North American colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Canada. Achieved 1 July 1867.
03/19/1870	David Thompson	fur trader, explorer, surveyor, mapmaker. Apprenticed to the HUDSON'S BAY CO in 1784, Thompson devoted most of his life to the study of geography and the practice of mapmaking. The maps, based primarily on his own explorations and observations, were the first to provide a comprehensive view of the vast western territories that became part of Canada in 1870
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
03/19/1780 to 03/19/1821	North-West Company	A major force in the fur trade from the 1780s to 1821.
03/19/1812 to 03/19/1815	The War of 1812	between the United States and Great Britain from 1812 to 1815
03/19/1815 to 03/19/1850	Great Migration	Period of immigration to Canada from 1815 to 1850
03/19/1861 to 03/19/1865	American Civil War	Conflict between the Northern US states (Union) and the Southern states that seceded and formed the Confederacy 1861-65. It was important in the development of a separate Canadian identity.