CANADA'S HISTORY

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  • The first European settlement

    The first European settlement north was established by French explorers.

  • Champlain built a fortress

    Québec noadays

  • Exclisive trading rights for Hudson's Bay Company

    King Charles II of England granted the Hudson´s Bay Company exclusive trading rights over the watershed draining into Hudson Bay.
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    Battle for control of North America

    Between France and Great Britain

  • The French and Iroquois made peace.

  • Battle of the Plains of Abrham-at Québec City

    British defeated French, making the end of France's empire in America.

  • Québec Act

    The Québec Act accommodated the principles of British institutions to the reality of the province (allowed religious freedom for Catholics). The Québec Act restored French civil war while maintaining British criminal law.

  • Independence of the British Colonies

    The 13 British Colonies to the south of Quebec declared the independence and formed The United States.

  • Freetown, Sierra Leone was established.

    Some black Nova Scotians moved on the stablish Freetown, Sierra Leone, a new British Colonie.