How Canada Came to Be By keirap Sep 22, 1534 Cartier lands in Newfoundland, 1534 Sep 22, 1604 Champlain Establishes Port Royal, 1604 Sep 22, 1608 Champlain Establishes Quebec City, 1608 Sep 22, 1663 First Fille du Rois arrive in New France, 1663 Sep 22, 1665 Jean Talon, intendent of New France from 1665 to 1668 Sep 22, 1668 Radisson and dea Groseilliers reach Hudson's Bay, 1668 Sep 22, 1670 King of England grant's Hudson's Bay Company a monopoly of trade in Rupertsland, 1670 Sep 22, 1755 Expulsion of the Acadians, 1755 Sep 22, 1756 •Seven Years War, 1756 – 1763 Sep 22, 1759 •British conquest of Quebec 1759 – 1760 Sep 22, 1763 •Treaty of Paris, 1763 Sep 22, 1770 •Establishment of the Northwest Company and expansion of HBC trading postsinto the interior; voyageurs and Métis nation, 1770s Period: Jan 1, 2011 to Dec 31, 2011 18 000 B.C. to 1770's Mar 2, 2022 First People Cross into the Americas 18 000 B.C. Mar 2, 2022 Vikings land in L'Anse aux Meadows, 985 C.E.