Events Canadian History 1500-1800

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  • Oct 15, 1497

    John Cabot

    Start of the Fishing Industry
  • Oct 15, 1534

    Cartier's first voyage

    Landed in P E I
    Sailed up the St Lawrence
    Conflicts with the Iroquois (Donnacona)
  • Oct 16, 1535

    Cartier's 2nd voyage

    Attempt at spending winter in Canada (starvation/cold/scurvy)
    Captured more 1st nations
    Discovered NF was an island
    Charted the St Lawrence
  • Oct 16, 1541

    Cartier Roberval

    Jean-Francois Roberval
    Failed attempt to colonize 150. 200 (total 300 settlers)
    Due to weather and conflict with the 1st nations
    1541-43
  • Oct 16, 1576

    1st Frobisher Expedition

    Martin Frobisher tries and fails to find a northwest passage.

  • Tadoussac

  • St Croix

    Pierre Du Gua de Monts tried and failed to settle, left in 1604

  • Founding of Port Royal

    Capital of Acadia.
    Established by Champlain.

  • Founding of Jamestown (In Virginia)

    First permanent settlement after the disappearance of the Roanoke colony in 1590.

  • Founding of Quebec

    Location controlled access to the interior.
    The access to the riverways (the Fur-Trade)

  • Henry Hudson

    His crew mutinies against him.

  • Etienne Brule

    Conflict between the Hurons/French and the Iroquois.
    French victories at the Battle of Lake Champlain and the Richelieu River. Etienne Brule= 1st coureur de bois. Deepens the bonds between the French and the Hurons.

  • Jean De Brebeuf

    Jesuit-Huron relations. The relationship is initially cordial, however it sours with the rise of european epidemics. However the number of conversions increase after 1640.
    Only Catholics could own guns.

  • The Company of 100 Associates

    Private investements. (Including Cardinal Richelieu).
    Arrival of 4000 settlers
    Rise of the fur trade.

  • Capture of Quebec

    English seize Tadoussac (1627)
    Capture Quebec (1629) Champlain surrenders
    The St Lawrence is closed off from France until 1632

  • Acadia and Quebec return to France

    New France was returned to France in an agreement that forced Louis XIII to pay Charles I of England 1 million livres which was previously owed. Champlain returns to power.

  • Founding of Trois-Riviere

    As the name suggests, situated at the crossroad of rivers.

  • Founding of Montreal.

    Originally called Ville-Marie.
    Center of the fur trade.
    First Established in 1611

  • The Seigneurs and the Habitants.

    Population app 600 Seigneurs Obligations:
    Maintain manor house, manage land/settlers, settle minor disputes.Provide a mill.
    Censitaires Obligations:
    Responsible for the land granted to them and mandated to improve it. Paying Cens and Rentes. Pay for the use of the mill with flour, (1/14). Required to dedicate an amount of time every year to do unpaid labour for the Seigneurs.
  • Period: to

    The Beaver Wars

  • Iroquois attacks

    Jesuits are killed and tortured (Jean de Brebeuf, Gabriel Lalement)
    The fall of Huronia. Iroquois advantages: They had guns from the Dutch and the British. Guerilla warfare. Why: Longstanding conflict between both tribes. The Iroquois population was diminished. Aftermath: The fall of Huronia led to a massive power vacum. The Coureurs de Bois spread inland and became the new intermediaries.

  • Arrival of the Sulpicians

    Religious groups at this point The Recollets
    Jesuits
    The Ursulines
    The Sulpicians.

  • New France

    Jean Colbert. Laval

  • New France Becomes a Province

  • Jean Talon

    The first intendant. Hierarchy= The company->The Intendant->Seigneurs->Censitaires.
    -> Religious groups. Jean Talon's mandate was to turn New France into a self sustaining colony.

  • The Carignan Saliere Regiment

    Dispatched by Louis the XIV. Defeat the five nations and force their retreat in 1666 and 1667. Comte de Frontenac was involved.

  • Founding of HBC

    Radisson et Grosellier. Could not get Frech investors. Sided with the British. Rupert's land. HBC controlled all the waterways which flowed into the Hudson Bay.

  • Comte de Frontenac

    Governor general
    Supported expansion of the fur trade.
    Permitted the selling of alcohol to 1st nations. (Bishop Laval opposed this)
    Defended Quebec from a british/Iroquois invasion in 1690. Important counterparts William Phips)

  • Expansion along the Mississippi River

  • Louisianna

    Robert Cavelier La Salle

  • Iroquois Raids

  • King William's war

    Sir William Phips captures Port Royal.
    Frontenac keeps Quebec

  • Queen Anne's War

    +Decline of the fur trade

  • Grande Paix de Montreal

    It ended a hundred years of conflicts between the Iroquois and the French. This peace lasted for sixteen years.

  • Vaudreuil

    Phillipe Vaudreuil becomes governor general.
    Conflict against the fox nation, inciting other tribes to attact them.
    The fox nation was forgiven in 1737

  • The british recapture Acadia

  • Period: to

    The Fox Resistance

  • Treaty of Utrecht

    Ceded claims to Rupert's land
    And gave up Acadia.

  • Fort Louisbourg is built

  • Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye

    Built trading posts along Lake Winnipeg, and the Saskatchewan river. Solidifying French control onto the interior. British counterpart=Henry Kelsey.

  • Marie Joseph Angelique

  • Period: to

    King George's war

  • Battle of Grand Pre

  • Treaty of Aix de Chapelle

    Ended the war of Spanish succession (Europe).
    Returned Louisbourg to New France
    New England had captures it in 1745

  • Fort Halifax

  • Edward Cornwallis

  • Anthony Henday

  • George Washington

  • Deportation of the Acadians

  • Marquis de Montcalm

  • Period: to

    The Seven Years War

  • Fall of Louisbourg + William Pitt

  • The Plains of Abraham

  • Martial Law

  • Proclamamation of 1763

  • End of Pontiac's Rebellion

  • James Murray +the Stamp Act

  • Guy Carlton

  • The Quebec Act 1774

  • American Invasion

  • American Independence

  • The Northwest Company

    A group of montreal traders who merged and began to compete against the HBC.

  • American Independence is recognized

  • Constitutional Act 1791