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John Cabot sails across the Atlantic ocean and claimed Newfoundland for Great Britain.
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Jacques Cartier claims the St. Lawrence region for France and established a French presence in North America.
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Samuel de Champlain established fort Quebec which is now Quebec City.
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The Hudson's Bay Company is established and the fur trade begins to "heat up".
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Fighting between French and colonists merged into a European conflict involving France, Austria, and Russia against Prussia and Britain. Peace was declared in 1763 through the Peace of Paris, which ended French power in North America.
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Following the Treaty of Paris The Royal Proclamation was issued basically stating the all land (and people occupying it) was property of the Britain Crown.
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British immigrants start coming to Canada, forcing the First Nations farther West.
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Canada forms as a country with four provinces Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
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Metis lead by Louis Riel form a provision government and lobby the federal government to recognize Metis rights.
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The Canadian Government signs 11 treaties with First Nations. the treaties give the government the ability to use the land in exchange for promises of health care and education to the First Nations.
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A policy is passed that allows people to be "Status Indians". It created reserves and gives hunting rights to Indians.
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The government builds residual schools and forces "Indian"children to attend in hopes to assimilate First Nations with a European education.
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Louis Riel comes out of hiding to lead another resistance against the government.
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The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples was a Commision that did a broad survey of historical and contemporary relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in Canada.
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The last residential school finally goes out of operation.
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is established to compensate survivors of the residential school system. It produced a mandate that everyone has to be educated about the the wrongs committed against the First Nations.
