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Sep 26, 1534
•Cartier lands in Newfoundland
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•Champlain establishes Port Royal,
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•Champlain establishes Quebec City, 1608
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•First Filles du Rois arrive in New France,
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•Jean Talon, intendant of New France from 1665 to 1668
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•Radisson and des Groseilliers reach Hudson Bay,
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•King of England grants Hudson’s Bay Company a monopoly of trade in Rupertsland,
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•Expulsion of the Acadians,
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•Seven Years War,
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•British conquest of Quebec
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•Treaty of Paris, 1763
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•Establishment of the Northwest Company and expansion of HBC trading postsinto the interior; voyageurs and Métis nation, 1770s
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•First People cross into the Americas, 18,000 B.C.
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•Vikings land in L'Anse aux Meadows