Unit 1 History

  • Sep 16, 1001

    First People cross into the Americas

  • Sep 22, 1534

    Vikings land in L'Anse aux Meadows

  • Sep 22, 1534

    •Cartier lands in Newfoundland

  • Champlain establishes Port Royal

  • Champlain establishes Quebec City

  • First Filles du Rois arrive in New France

  • Period: to

    Jean Talon, intendant of New France

  • •Radisson and des Groseilliers reach Hudson Bay

  • •King of England grants Hudson’s Bay Company a monopoly of trade in Rupertsland

  • •Expulsion of the Acadians

  • Period: to

    Seven Years War

  • British conquest of Quebec

  • Treaty of Paris

  • Period: to

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

  • Period: to

    History 30S Unit 1