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The first occupants crossed a land bridge made of ice on the Bering Strait during the las ice age from Asia to North America
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Samuel de Champlain founded Québec to ease the fur trade with the Amerindians
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The french came from Europe to Quebec and took over the land. Quebec became a colony of France
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France will give the Company the monopoly of the fur trade only if they got 4000 settlers in 3 years, pay the fees for the settlers and grant artisans the right to open up shops in New France
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Laviolette founded Trois-Rivières for commercial purposes related to fur trade
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Contagious diseases were spread to the Amerindians from the Europeans, but they didn't have medicine to cure these diseases. This was the beginning of many outbreaks.
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Chomedey de Maisonneuve is the founder of Ville-Marie (now Monréal). He and a lot of other people established a permanent settlement
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King Louis XIV was in control of colonial development. Jean-Talon, his intendant, took charge of colonizing New-France.
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Jean Talon put in a bunch of policies to encourage immigration of the engagés, the filles du Roi, volunteers and soldiers
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The English won the seven years war against the French and New France was now occupied by the English.
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The treaty that the French signed where New France officially became an english colony and ended the Seven Years War.
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The first constitution of the Province of Québec. The territory reduced to the St Lawrence Valley, English criminal and civil laws, lands were divided into townships, British administrators.
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Second constitution. The British Parliament made some changes to the first constitution to ensure the loyalty of the Canadiens. There were french civil laws, the test act was abolished, the tithe was brought back and the province expanded.
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The Thirteen British colonies became an independent country and are now called the United States of America.
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This treaty ended the American-British war over the independence of the Thirteen Colonies. The size of Québec reduced and all the territories below the great lakes became part of the United States.
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Some of the people living in the Thirteen Colonies didn't want to become independent and wanted to stay loyal to their mother country. They called themselves and immigrated to the Province of Québec.
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It was created because of the arrival of the Loyalists. The territory was divided into Upper Canada (mostly english) and Lower Canada (mostly french).
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The Aboriginal population continues to decrease because of epidemics, low birth rate and the hunting areas decrease. The nations that lived near the cities were influenced by the Europeans and some of them will change their way of life.
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The legislative assembly asked for politician reforms and wanted a responsible government but didn't get it so Lower Canada was upset.
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The dominion of Canada was created. The four founding provinces are Québec, Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The dominion expanded over the years.
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The period after the British Regime. It continues to be this period today.
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Many Canadians wanted to emigrate to the United States for many reasons. The shortage of farmland, the construction of the railway made transportation easy, the proximity of the USA, wages in factories were higher in the USA, the modernization of agricultural tools meant that workers weren't needed as much.
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There was an economic crisis and that slowed down the population growth. To contain this crisis John A. Macdonald made his National Policy
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Immigration started to stop during the war. There were fears that foreigners were dangerous so racist and discriminatory immigration policies were made. Those who were foreigners and already lived in Canada had their rights restricted.
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Many babies were born after the second world war because all the husbands came back from war. This increased the population.
