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First Peoples came to North America through a land bridge, they came across from Asia into modern day Alaska, they learned how to hunt and fish and build homes. The people who lived closer to water were more into fishing and thee people who lived more on land hunted more, they harvested nuts and herbs and they built skin covered canoes and followed the water waves to the East. -
He was an early European to meet first nations, and they were both surprised the Europeans we blonde and red-haired and bearded and the first nations were dark-haired, those native people had dwellings made out of rock and timber, the Indians were hunter-gatherers and the Norse were farmers First white man to encounter First Nations -
Early explorer to Canada, this guy was sponsored by king Henry the 7th to find more land across the Atlantic,
he landed just North of Newfoundland. -
He landed on the North shore across from Gaspe, he was sent by the king of France
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He was sent by François Gravé Du Pont to sail from France across the Atlantic and became the first Europeon to see the Great Lakes, his job was to discover and claim land for France.
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Port Royal is the first Canadian Colony established by France in New France.
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He's also the founder of Hudson's Bay Company.
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The first catholic missionaries to convert first nations people to Christianity.
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Fur traders, Pierre Radisson and Des Groseilliers discovered many furs around Hudson Bay and got rich business people from Hudson to start the Hudsons bay company. -
He was supposed to look for the Northwest passage. -
In the battle of the plains of Abraham, the British won and both commanders were killed, a year later new France surrendered to the British
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P.E.I. becomes its own British Colony and they mostly speak English
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He was guided by Chipewyan leader Matonabbee and explored the Coppermine and Slave rivers. He was the first white man to go to the Arctic Ocean by land. -
Quebec is divided into two colonies, Upper and Lower Canada, each with its own Assembly.
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By canoe and on foot, Alexander Mackenzie crosses the Rocky mountains and the coast range, reaching the Pacific Ocean on July 22.
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Shawnandithit, the last of the Beothuks, dies at about age twenty-eight in St. John's, Newfoundland.
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Josiah and Charlotte Henson and their children journey north from Maryland to Canada. The Hensons later help found a community of ex-slaves called Dawn, near Dresden, Ontario. -
The first railway in Canada opens, running from La Prarie to St. John's, Quebec. -
James Douglas of the Hudson's Bay Company founds Victoria on Vancouver Island.
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Sir John Franklin and his crew disappear into the Arctic while seeking the Northwest Passage.
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He opens his first general store, in Kirtkton, Ontario. Later people could order goods through Eaton's catalog.
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The city of Toronto establishes the first Children Aid Society in Canada -
Gold is discovered in the Klondike. By the next year, 100,000 people are rushing to the Yukon in hope of getting rich. -
Saskatchewan and Alberta Join Confederation. Immigrants rush to settle on the plains, mainly as wheat farmers.
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Tom Longboat, an Onondaga from the six nations reserve and a world champion distance runner, wins the Boston Marathon in record time. in 1906 he won a 2-mile (almost 20 km) race against a horse.
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Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery, has been published. By the end of the century, the book sold more than a million copies, is made into a television movie, and became a popular musical.
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The first world war. Britain declares war on Germany on behalf of the British Empire, including Canada.
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Battle of Vimy Ridge (France). A Canadian victory at cost of more than 10,000 killed or wounded. -
A French munitions ship explodes in Halifax harbor, flattening the city, killing 1600, and injuring 9000. -
Women win the right to vote in federal elections.
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The second world war. After Germany invades Poland and Britain declares war, Canada declares war as well.
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Trans-Canada Airlines (later Air Canada) makes the first scheduled passenger flight from Vancouver to Montreal.
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In a disastrous raid on Dieppe, France, 900 out of 5000 Canadians are killed, and almost 2000 are taken, prisoner. -
Inuit win the right to vote in federal elections.
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Marilyn Bell, age sixteen, is the first person to swim Lake Ontario. -
The first Canadian satellite, Alouette I, is launched by the American space agency. -
Canada gets a new red-and-white maple leaf flag.
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The voting age is lowered from twenty-one to eighteen.
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Astronaut Mark Garneau, aboard the U.S. space shuttle Challenger, becomes the first Canadian in space.
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After a federal election fought over the issue of free trade, the free-trade agreement between Canada and the United States comes into effect, gradually ending controls on trade and investment between the two countries.
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"Turbot War" erupts when Canada arrests a Spanish ship in a bid to prevent European fleets from-overharvesting Newfoundland fish stocks.
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Astronaut Marc Garneau makes his second trip into space. -
Security alerts across Canada after terrorist attacks of September 11 on New York City and Washington -
Same-Sex Marriages become legal throughout Canada