Canadian Historic Events

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  • Oct 24, 1497

    Italian born navigator John Cabot reaches the coasts of Newfoundland and Cape Breton.

  • Period: Oct 24, 1497 to

    Canadian Historic Events

  • Oct 24, 1534

    Jacque Cartier explores the Saint Lawrence River.

    He is claming the area for France.

  • New Foundland becomes England's first overseas colony.

  • London traders establish Hudson's Bay Company

  • The treaty of Paris gives England control of France's territory in North America

  • Refugees from the American Revolutionary War

    They are loyal to the British move north present day Canada

  • War of 1812

    American invasion of area around the Great Lakes and the Canadian frontier

  • Oregon Treaty between the United States and Canada sets the new border at the 49th parallel

  • Dominion of Canada is formed and self-government was granted

  • Gold Rush

    takes place along the Upper Yukon River

  • Canada fights on the side of the British and French in World War 1

  • Canadian Great Depression

    Canadian forces join the Allined Powers in World War II

  • Canadian Great Depresion

    Canadian forces join the allied Powers in World War II

  • World War II ends

  • World War II ends

  • U.S. spacecraft Apollo 11 lands on the moon with Canadian-built landing gear

  • U.S./Canada Free Trade Agreement

  • Canda sends troops and supplies to aid U.S. in the Persian Gulf

  • The North America Free Trade Agreement

    comes into effect linking Canda the United States and Mexico in a new economic partership.

  • Canada decides not to be a part of the military coalition led by the United States against Iraq