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Jan 1, 1534
Cartier lands in Newfoundland
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Champlain establishes Port Royal
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Champlain establishes Quebec City
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First Filles du Rois arrive in New France
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Period: to
Jean Talon, 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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Period: to
Seven Years War
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Period: to
British conquest of Quebec
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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