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Jan 1, 1534
Cartier lands in Newfoundland
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Champlain establishes Port Roayl
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Champlain establishes Quebec City
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First Filles du Rois arrive in New France
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Jean Talon, intendant of New France (begins)
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Jean Talon, intendant of New France (ending)
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Radisson and des Groseilliers reach Hudson Bay
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King of England grants Hudsons's Bay Company a monopoly of trade in Rupertsland
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Expulsion of the Acadians
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Seven Years War (begins)
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British conquest to Quebec (begins)
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British conquest of Quebec (ends)
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Treaty of Paris
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Seven Years War
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Establishment of the Northwest Company and expansion of HBC trading posts into the interior; voyageurs and Metis nation
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Vikings land in L'Anse aux Meadows