First Nations and New France timeline

By zoko
  • Oct 6, 1000

    First People cross into the Americas

    18,000 B.C.
  • Oct 6, 1200

    Vikings land in L'Anse aux Meadows

    985 CE
  • Oct 6, 1534

    Cartier lands in Newfoundland

  • Champlain establishes Port Royal

  • Champlain establishes Quebec City

  • First Filles du Rois arrive in New France

  • Jean Talon, intendant of New France

    1665 to 1668

  • 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

  • Seven Years War

    1756 – 1763

  • British conquest of Quebec

    1759 – 1760

  • Treaty of Paris

  • Establishment of the Northwest Company and expansion of HBC trading postsinto the interior; voyageurs and Métis nation

    1770s