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Jan 1, 1200
First People cross into the Americas 18,000 BC
18,000 BC. Paelo Indians were the first people who lived in America. They migrated from Siberia. This migration is referred as the late glacial period or Ice Age. -
Dec 31, 1300
Vikings land in L'Anse aux Meadows 985 CE
985 CE. There is a consensus among scholars that the Vikings reached North America approximately five centuries prior to the voyages of Christopher Columbus In 1960 archaeological evidence of the only known Norse settlement in North America (outside of Greenland) was found at L'Anse aux Meadows on the northern tip of the island of Newfoundland, in what is now the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. -
May 10, 1534
Cartier lands in Newfoundland
Starting on May 10 of 1534, Cartier set sail under a commission from the king, hoping to discover a western passage to the wealthy markets of Asia. It took him twenty days to sail across the ocean. -
Champlain establishes Port Royal
The Habitation at Port-Royal (1604–1613) was the first successful French settlement of New France in North America, and is presently known as Port-Royal National Historic Site, a National Historic Site located on the northern side of the Annapolis Basin, Nova Scotia, Canada. -
Champlain establishes Quebec City
Samuel de Champlain "The Father of New France", was a French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer and chronicler. He founded Quebec City and New France on July 3, 1608. -
First Filles du Rois arrive in New France
The King's Daughters and there were between 700 and 900 Frenchwomen who immigrated to New France between 1663 and 1673 under the monetary sponsorship of Louis XIV. The government sponsored them so settlers in the colony could marry and start families to populate New France. -
Jean Talon, intendant of New France
Until 1668. The first intendant of New France was Jean Talon, appointed in 1665 when the colony became a royal province of France. It was Talon who took the first census of the colony in 1666. Talon also established many industries in New France, including shipbuilding. -
Radisson and des Groseilliers reach Hudson Bay
On June 3 1668, Radisson in the Eaglet under Captain William Stannard, and des Groseilliers in the Nonsuch under Captain Zachariah Gillam, of Boston, sailed down the Thames to cross the Atlantic. -
King of England grants Hudson’s Bay Company a monopoly of trade in Rupertsland
King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company, made up of the group of French explorers who opened the lucrative North American fur trade to London merchants. The charter conferred on them not only a trading monopoly but also effective control over the vast region surrounding North America's Hudson Bay -
Expulsion of the Acadians
The Expulsion of the Acadians was the forced removal by the British of the Acadian people from present day Canadian Maritime provinces such as Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. The Expulsion occurred during most of the French and Indian War. -
Seven Years War
Until 1763. The Seven Years' War was a global military conflict involving most of the great powers of the time and affecting Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines. -
British conquest of Quebec
Until 1760. The settlement of North America by French and British people over Quebec City, -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris signed on September 3, 1783, ratified by the Congress of the Confederation on January 14, 1784, The King of Great Britain on April 9, 1784 (the ratification documents were exchanged in Paris on May 12, 1784), formally ended the American Revolutionary War between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States of America, which had rebelled against British rule. -
Establishment of the Northwest Company and expansion of HBC trading postsinto the interior; voyageurs and Métis nation
The North West Company was a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal. It competed against the Hudson's Bay Company in what was to become Western Canada. It cane to the point where they both broke out, and the two companies were forced to come together as one.
