Population and Settlement

By DaveSorn14
  • Period: Aug 28, 1500 to

    Populstion and settlement

  • Aug 29, 1500

    Amerindian tribes

    Iroquois traits:
    Semi-sendary; left farmland when it wasn't fertile.
    Lived in the south near the St.Laurence river.
    Warriors, fought other tribes for trade advantages.
    Algonquin trades:
    Nomadic tribes; survived on hunting and fishing.
    Lived in the Canadian shield up North.
  • Aug 29, 1534

    Cartier Voyages

    Took place in 1534,1535,1541.
    Three Resons:
    To find a new route to Asia
    To get riches
    To acquire land for the king of France

  • Settlement attempted in Port Royal, Nova Scotia

    Member of the project: Samuel Champlain.
    Settlement was a failure because it was too far for the natives to trade with it.

  • Samuel de Champlain voyage

    To create a trading post in Stadacona.
    The beginning of New France.

  • Company of One Hundred Associates

    Put in place to make money from the fur trade as efficiently as possible.
    Were given the responsability to populate the colony of New-France.
    Failed because having less people in the colony got them more money.

  • Foundation of Trois-Rivieres

    Champlai put Sieur de Laviolette in charge of making this settlement.
    Advantage: The three rivers that converge at this point make it easy to trade with others.

  • Foundation of Ville-Marie (Montreal)

    Paul Chomedy was in charge of creating this settlement.
    Advantage: Located in the heart of Amerindian territory.

  • Intendant Jean Talon arrives in New France

    Put in measures that increase the population:
    If you were a soldier that finsihed his time you could get free land
    Converted protestant orphans to catholics, sent them to N.F. and married them off to bachelors.
    Put in measures that gave families with enough children alot of money and unmarried adults were taxed.

  • The Great Peace of Montreal

    Signed by the Amerindians and the French to prevent more wars after a century of fighting.

  • The Begining of the British Regime

    Britain wins the war against France and gains control New France.
    Treaty of Paris signed to end the war.

  • The Royal Proclamation

    The first constitution written after the British conquer Quebec.
    Gives a lot of land to Amerindien settlements and a very small amount to the Province of Quebec (formerly New France).

  • Immigration of British merchants into Quebec

    -The first wave of immigration.
    -Caused by wealthy British merchants trying to take over business in Quebec.
    -Population of Quebec still 99% French, 1% English.

  • The Quebec Act

    The second constitution signed under British rule in Quebec.
    Gives much of what was land for Amerindian reserves to the Province of Quebec and puts in place some old French laws, like seigneuries.
    Makes the French very happy but infuriates the people of the Thirteen Colonies, which eventually causes them to declare independance and become the U.S.

  • The Declaration of Independance

    Caused by Britain giving the French inhabitants too many priviledges and too much land, which angered the thirteen colonies.
    Many wars would be fought between the thirteen clonies and Britain to obtain independence.
    The French ally with the thirteen colonies because Britain is their rival.

  • The Treaty of Versailles

    Officially ends the war caused by the declaration of independance.
    The thirteen colonies are allowed to become they're own state, The United States of America.
    Cause the Loyalist immigration from 1783-1800.

  • Immigration of Loyalists into Quebec

    The second wave of immigration.
    Caused by certain British people not wanting part in America and staying loyal to Britain, so they moved back into British territory.
    36000 loyalists settle in Canada, 6000 in Canada.
    The population of British people in Quebec changed from 1 to 10%.

  • Irish immigration from Europe to Quebec

    The third wave of immigration.
    Caused by the Irish potato famine, Scottish and English people in Europe trying to make better lives in North America.
    Passengers of the boats were often sick. Sick immigrants were quarantined in Grosse-ile to avoid spreading disease.
    -Irish people were generally Catholic and did jobs for less than the other nationalities, which made them loathe the Irish.

  • The British National Act

    The document that gave Canada the right to be in charge of itself on the interior, it made Canada its old country.
    Only the territory of modern day Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick were included, but in the next 50 years almost every province joined in the Canadian federation.
    Britain still had control of certain parts of Canadian politics.

  • The Oka Crisis

    Caused by a golf course trying to expand its land onto an indian reserve in Oka.
    Mohawk warriors set up roadblocks around their territory in protest.
    Armed soldiers got sent to meet the Amerindians but now armed conflict occured.

  • Beginning of Brain Drain

    Brain Drain is when skilled workers from other countries would come to more developped countries, like Canada, to have better work opportunities.