First Nations and Nouvelle-France

  • Feb 16, 1534

    Jaques Cartier lands in Newfoundland

  • Champlain establishes Port Royal

  • Champlain founds Quebec City

  • First Filles du Roi arrive in New France

  • Jean Talon intendant of New France

  • Radisson and des Groseilliers reach Hudson Bay

  • King of England grants Hudson's Bay Company a Monopoly of trade in Rupert's Land

  • Expulsion of the Acadians

  • Start of the Seven Year War

  • British Conquest of Quebec

  • Conclusion of British Conquest of Quebec

  • End of the Seven Year War

  • Treaty of Paris

  • Establishment of Northwest Company

    Expansion of HBC trading posts into the interior; voyaguers and Metis nations
  • Vikings Land in L'Anse aux Meadows

  • Period: to

    The Migration into Canada