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Feb 16, 1534
Jaques Cartier lands in Newfoundland
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Champlain establishes Port Royal
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Champlain founds Quebec City
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First Filles du Roi arrive in New France
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Jean Talon becomes intendant of New France
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Radisson and des Groseilliers reach Hudson Bay
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King of England grants Hudson’s Bay Company a monopoly of trade in Rupertsland
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Expulsion of the Acadians
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Seven Years War
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British conquest of Quebec
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British conquest of Quebec ends
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Seven Years War ends
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Treaty of Paris
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•Establishment of the Northwest Company and expansion of HBC trading postsinto the interior; voyageurs and Métis nation
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Vikings Land in L'Anse aux Meadows
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Period: to
The Migration into Canada