Canada Till 1774 By facebooker_865463640469508 12,000 BCE Aboriginals' Ancestors Crossed Land Bridge into New World https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/exploration-settlement/pathfinders-passageways/Pages/land-bridge.aspx 1497 John Cabot's Voyage to Canada, and the Discovery of the Cod Fish which led to Fishing Industry https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/john-cabot 1535 Jacques Cartier Misunderstanding the word village as the name of the land: Canada https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/origin-name-canada.html 1608 Champlain Establishing first French Colony in Quebec https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/samuel-de-champlain 1649 Annihilation of Huron Nation https://www.lermuseum.org/new-france-1600-1730/1600-1649/iroquois-offensive-and-the-destruction-of-the-huron-1647-1649 1670 Hudson's Bay Company Founded https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/hudsons-bay-company 1755 Acadian Expulsion https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-deportation-of-the-acadians-feature 1756 Seven Years War https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/seven-years-war 1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/battle-of-the-plains-of-abraham 1763 Treaty of Paris https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/treaty-of-paris-1763 1774 The Quebec Act https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/united-states-and-canada/canadian-history/1774-quebec-act