First People & New France (to 1763)

By KiLim
  • Feb 16, 1534

    •Cartier lands in Newfoundland

  • •Champlain establishes Port Royal

  • •Champlain establishes Quebec City

  • •First Filles du Rois arrive in New France

  • Period: to

    •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 Rupertsland

  • •Expulsion of the Acadians

  • Period: to

    •Seven Years War

  • Period: to

    •British conquest of Quebec

  • •Treaty of Paris

  • •Establishment of the Northwest Company and expansion of HBC trading postsinto the interior; voyageurs and Métis nation