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Jan 25, 1497
Cabot's "discovery" of Newfoundland
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Jan 25, 1534
Cartier's "discovery" of Canada [New France]
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Champlain founds Quebec City
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Maisonneuve founds Montreal
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Hudson Bay Company Founded
Formed in 1670, from a charter granted by Britain to finance the company, the Hudson Bay Company controlled an immense territory [all the land that had rivers drained into Hudson Bay.] Each trade post that was built along Hudson Bay and downstream [from many major rivers] had an agent that controlled the store where trade took place. The major currency was the beaver pelts, and Aboriginal people brought the furs to the post during spring and fall. -
Treaty of Utrecht
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Battle of Louisbourg
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Fall of Quebec [Battle of the plains of Abraham]
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Paris Treaty
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Quebec Act
To the South, many people rebelled against the government eventually causing the American Revolution. Britain feared that the French Canadians to the North would also rebel and join forces with the Americans. In order to regain good relations with the French Canadians, Britain saw that it would be important to allow them to have special rights and in 1774, the Quebec Act was signed, allowing French Canadian citizens to have their old French customs and Territory rights. -
Northwest Company founded
The Northwest Company was formed in 1779 in Montreal by fur trade merchants who wanted to breaks HBC's stranglehold over the fir trade. Instead of establishing forts, most of the trading was done by explorers who lived seasonally with aboriginal groups. In 1821, it was forced to merge with the HBC [Hudson Bay Company] -
Constitutional Act of 1791
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Red River Settlement founded
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End of The War of 1812
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Union Act
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Responsible Government created
Each "Canada" has 42 elected officials that form their legislative councils. In 1848, Lord Elgin recommends that one party that takes charge of the government and works with the other parties to have a more responsible government. -
Charlottetown Conference
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Confederation
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Manitoba joins Canada
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Northwest Rebellion
Riel returns to Canada in 1885 to help a Métis group at Batoche [near Saskatoon]. Reil is arrested and put on trial where he was founded guilty of treason. He was hung November 16th 1885 in Regina. -
Louis Riel is executed
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Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
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Battle of Ypres
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Battle of the Somme
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Armistice Day
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Treaty of Versailles
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Start of world war 2
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D-Day
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Hitler commits suicide
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Victory in Europe Day