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the First occupants of this territory crossed from Asia on a land bridge made of ice on the Bering Strait, which lead them over time to Quebec
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Pierre Chauvin established Tadoussac as a trading post with the goal to centralize the trade between the Natives and the French.
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Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec making it the first permanent settlement to aid the fur trade with the Amerindians.
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Founded by Cardinal Richelieu, the One-Hundred Associates took over to the establishment in New France in exchange France grants the Company the monopoly on the fur trade.
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Laviolette founded Trois-Rivières as a permanent colony for commercial purposes related to the fur trade.
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Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve founded Ville-Marie with the help of Jeanne Mance, who established the first hospital and Marguerite Bourgeois, who established the first public school.
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King Louis XIV took back control of New France and his intendant Jean Talon undertook the settlement of New France by carrying out the first census and policies to encourage population growth. These policies include immigrations of the engagés, the filles du roi, volunteers and soldiers.
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To balance the proportion between women and men, the king encouraged girls old enough to married to emigrate to New France. The filles du roi were orphans who would travel to New France free of charge and receive dowry and 50 livres to find a spouse in New France.
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The Seven Year War was between Great Britain and France, it took place in Europe, Americas, Africa and Asia. The war was ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris that made New France an officially a British Colony.
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One of the effects of the Conquest was that several thousand British immigrants, mostly soldiers and merchants settled in New France.
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The Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Year War and France gave up all territories in North America besides the islands of St-Pierre and Miquelon. New France became an official coliny of Great Britian.
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The Royal Proclamation is the first constitution of the Province of Quebec, which describes the operations of the new British colony. This resulted in English criminal and civil laws were in place and the encouraged British immigration.
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To ensure the loyalty of the Canadians from a political unrest like in the Thirteen colonies, the Québec Act allowed French civil laws to return with English laws for criminal cases. This act also allowed people to freely practice the Roman Catholic Religion.
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The Thirteen British Colonies gained their independence and became the United States of America, they declared their independence on July 4th, 1783 with the Treaty of Versailles.
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With the independence of the thirteen colonies, one third of the colonist remained loyal to the King and some 6000 loyalist migrated to the Province of Quebec.
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With the arrival of the loyalist, the constitution divided the province of Quebec in to two, Upper and Lower Canada, each part will have its own religions, laws and land division. The anglophones will settle in Upper Canada and the francophones in Lower Canada.
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This emigration of French Canadians to the United States was caused by the shortage of farmland, railway-network being developed in the northeast of United States, proximity of the American border, industries offered better wages and the modernization of agricultural tools and techniques reduced the need for manual labor.
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Canada's independence combined Quebec, Ontario, New-Brunswick and Nova Scotia to for Canada. With a population of 3.4 million people, Canada continued to expand and rapidly settling the entire territory.
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With the rise of big cities such as Toronto and Montreal, which became industrial center thus attracting a surplus population from rural areas.
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Due to the lack of farmland in Quebec, many immigrants headed to the Prairies in Western Canada, where new farmland was available for free from the Government.
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World War 1 complicated immigration flows resulting in a sudden decline in immigration to Canada. Also, immigrants from enemy countries were considered a threat to the country's security and were refused.
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World War 2 brought economic growth encouraging settlement in the resource regions like Abitibi, Côte-Nord, Gaspésie, and Nord-Du-Québec, which created a lot of mining and industrial towns in those regions.
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After the Second World War, more then 2 million babies were born during 15 years and the arrival of 30 000 immigrants arrived in the province of Quebec.
