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John Cabot drew the map of canada
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Made 3 voyages across the atlantic
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The name of Canada began appearing on maps
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In the 1600's the population of New France became bigger
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The first European settlement was established by french explorers
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Champlain bulit a fortress that is now Quebec City
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King Charles the 2nd granted exclusive trading rights over the watershed draining in Hudson Bay
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France and Great Britain battled for north america
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The French and Iroquois made peace
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The first representive assembly was elected in Halifax
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British defeated French in the battle of Plains of Abraham in Quebec City
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Prince Edward Island followed with the democratic institutions
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The British Parliament passed the Quebec Act of 1774
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The British Colonies declared independence and created USA
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Followed The democratic Instituations
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The Constintutional Act divided Quebec into Upper Canada
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Black Nova Scotians are given poorlands, so they moved to establish Freetown
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Upper Canada became the first to province in the empire to move toward abolition
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After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte's fleet in the battle of Trafalgar, the Royal Navy ruled the waves
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The British Parliament prohibited the buying and selling of slaves
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Believing it would be easy to conquer Canada, the United States launched an invasion in june 1812
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In 1813, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles de Salaberry and 460 soldiers, mostly French Canadiens, turned back 4,000 American Invaders at Chateauguay, south of Montreal.
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The Americans burned Government House and the Parliament Buildings in York(now Toronto)
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Major-General Robert Ross led an expedition from Nova Scotia that burned down the White House and other public buildings in Washington,D.C.
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The american attempt to conquer Canada had failed
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Reformers in Upper and Lower Canada believed that progress toward full democracy was too slow
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The Montreal stock exchange opened in 1832
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Abolished Slavery throughout the empire
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When armed rebellions occured in 1837 in the area outside Montreal and in Toronto the rebels did not have enough public support to succeed.
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Upper and Lower Canada were united as the province of Canada,
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The first British North American colony to attain full responsible government was Nova Scotia
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The governor of United Canada, Lord Elgin, with encouragement from London, introduced responsible government
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Representatives of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the province of Canada, with British support, worked together to establish a new country
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The British Parliament passed the British North America Act in 1867, the dominion of Canada was offcially born on july ,1867
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Ontario,Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick
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Manitoba, Northwest Territories
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British Columbia
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Prince Edward Island
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Transfer of the arctic islands (to N.W.T.)
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Yukon Territory
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Alberta,Saskatchewan
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Newfoundland and Labrador
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Until 1982 July 1st was celebrated as "Dominion Day" to commemorate the day that Canada became a self governing Dominon. Today it is officially known as Canada Day
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Nunavut
