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from the early 1600, English colonies along the Atlantic seaboard became more richer and more populous.
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The first European settlement north of Florida was established by french explorers Pierre the Monts and Samuel de Champlain.
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Champlain built a fortress at what is now Quèbec City.
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King Charles II of England granted the Hudson`s Bay Company exclusive trading rights over the watershed draining into Hudson Bay.
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France and Great Britain battled for control of North America.
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The French and the Iroquois made peace.
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The British defeated the French in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Quèbec City.
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The British Parliament passed the Quebec Act.
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The 13 British colonies to the South of Quebec declared independence and formed The United States. More than 40.000 people called "Loyalists" fled the oppression of the American Revolution to settle in Nova Scotia and Quebec.
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Some Black Nova Scotians who were given poor land, moved on to establish Freetown, Sierra Leone (West Africa), a new British colony for freed slaves.