Discover Canada

By kkjonny1999
  • Apr 16, 1534

    jacques cartier

    between 1534-1542 jacques cartier made 3 voyages across the aclantic
  • Apr 16, 1550

    1550 canada began appearing on maps

  • english colonies

    english colonies along the atlantic seaqboard dating from the early 1600s eventually became richer and more populous then new france

  • European settlement

    the european settlement north of florida was established by french explorers pierre de monts and samuel champlain

  • champlain build a fortress

    (now known as quebec city)

  • Hudson bay trading rights

    king charles 2 of england granted hudsonbay company exclusive trading rights over the wastershed draining into hudsonbay

  • french and great britain battled for control over america

  • the french and the iroquois made peace

  • americans burned goverment house and parliment bulidings

    americans burned goverment house and parliment bulidings in york (toronto)

  • british defeated the french

    the british defeated the french in the battle of the plains of abraham in quebec city

  • the british parliment passed the quebec act of 1774

  • indrependence and the unitedstates

    the 13 british colonies to the south of quebec delared inderoendence anf formed the unitedstates

  • Divided quebec into upper canada (ontario)

  • Freetown

    some black novascotians moved to the sierra leone freetown a new british colony for freed slaves

  • upper canada

    upper canada became the first province in the empire to move towards abloition

  • royal navy

    after the defeat of napoleon bonapartes fleet in the battle of trafalgar the royal navy ruled the waves

  • slaves prohibited

    the british parliament prohibited the buying and selling slaves

  • united states sent an invasion to canada

  • the first representative assembly

    the first representative assembly was elected in halifax, nova scotia and prince edward island followed

  • major ross

    major ross led an expedition from nova scotia that burned down the white house

  • refromers in upper and lower canada

    refromers in upper and lower canada believed the progress toward full democracy was too slow. some believbed canada should adopt americans republican values or even try to join the unitedstates

  • abolished slavery throughout the empire

  • the montreal stock exchange opened

  • rebellions

    rebellions occurred in 1837-38 in the area outside monreal and in toronto,the reblels did not have enough public support to succeed. they were defeated by british troops

  • upper and lower canada were united

    upper and lower canada were united as the province of canada

  • a new country

    representatives of nova scotia, new brunswick and the province of canada, with british support worked together to establish a new country

  • the british parliament passed the british north american act

  • the Dominion of canada was offically born on july 1

  • Expansion of the dominion

    ontario,quebec,nova scotia,new brunswick

  • Expansion of the dominion

    manitoba,northwest territories

  • Expansion of the dominion

    british colombia

  • Expansion of the dominion

    prince edward island

  • Expansion of the dominion

    tranfer of the arctic islands (to N.W.T.)

  • Expansion of the dominion

    yukon territory

  • Expansion of the dominion

    alberta,saskatchewan

  • Expansion of the dominion

    newfoundland and labrador

  • until 1982

    until 1982 july 1 was celebrated as dominion day to self governing dominion

  • Expansion of the dominion

    nunavut