How Canada Came to Be

By keirap
  • Sep 22, 1534

    Cartier lands in Newfoundland, 1534

  • Champlain Establishes Port Royal, 1604

  • Champlain Establishes Quebec City, 1608

  • First Fille du Rois arrive in New France, 1663

  • Jean Talon, intendent of New France from 1665 to 1668

  • Radisson and dea Groseilliers reach Hudson's Bay, 1668

  • King of England grant's Hudson's Bay Company a monopoly of trade in Rupertsland, 1670

  • Expulsion of the Acadians, 1755

  • •Seven Years War, 1756 – 1763

  • •British conquest of Quebec 1759 – 1760

  • •Treaty of Paris, 1763

  • •Establishment of the Northwest Company and expansion of HBC trading postsinto the interior; voyageurs and Métis nation, 1770s

  • Period: to

    18 000 B.C. to 1770's

  • First People Cross into the Americas 18 000 B.C.

  • Vikings land in L'Anse aux Meadows, 985 C.E.