First Nations

By Asjoyal
  • Sep 22, 1534

    •Cartier lands in Newfoundland

  • •Champlain establishes Port Royal

  • •Champlain establishes Quebec City

  • •First Filles du Rois arrive in New France

  • Period: to

    •Jean Talon, intendant of New France

  • •Radisson and des Groseilliers reach Hudson Bay

  • •King of England grants Hudson’s Bay Company a monopoly of trade in Rupertsland

  • •Expulsion of the Acadians

  • Period: to

    •Seven Years War

  • Period: to

    •British conquest of Quebec

  • •Treaty of Paris

  • Northwest Company

    •Establishment of the Northwest Company and expansion of HBC trading posts
    into the interior; voyageurs and Métis nation- 1770s

  • •First People cross into the Americas (18,000 BC)

  • •Vikings land in L'Anse aux Meadows (CE)