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TIMELINE OF KEY EVENTS |
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1021 |
Vikings in
L’Anse aux Meadows |
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1492 |
Columbus in the Caribbean |
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1493 |
Doctrine of Discovery (papal bulls) |
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1499 |
Vasco de Gama in India |
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1497 |
Cabot lands in Cape Bonavista |
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1513 |
Balboa reaches the Pacific |
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1519-1521 |
Cortez conquers Mexico |
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1532 |
Pizarro conquers Peru |
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1534-1541 |
Cartier explores St Lawrence |
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1599 |
Tadoussac founded as the first trading
post in New France |
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1605 |
Port Royal established in Nova Scotia |
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1607 |
First British colony in Jamestown
Virginia |
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1608 |
Champlain establishes Quebec City as
capital of New France |
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1609 |
Henry Hudson discovers Hudson River |
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1610 |
Start of the Beaver Wars |
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1610 |
Henry Hudson discovers Hudson Bay |
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1616 |
Smallpox outbreak in Tadoussac New
France |
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1620 |
Plymouth colony established on Cape
Cod |
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1633 |
Smallpox outbreak in Plymouth |
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1625 |
Dutch make New Amsterdam capital of
New Netherland |
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1664 |
New Amsterdam changed to New York |
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1670 |
Hudson Bay Company charter granted for
Rupert’s Land |
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1674 |
Treaty of Westminster (New Netherlands
transferred to Britain) |
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1675-1678 |
First Indian War (King Philip’s War) |
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1688-1697 |
Second Indian War (King William’s War) |
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1701 |
Great Peace of Montreal to end Beaver
Wars |
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1702-1713 |
Third Indian War (Queen Anne’s War) |
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1712-1733 |
Fox Wars |
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1713 |
Treaty of Utrecht |
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1725-1779 |
Peace & Friendship Treaties signed |
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1732-1739 |
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes
et La Verendrye explores west of Lake Superior |
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1749 |
Halifax established |
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1754-1763 |
French & Indian War (Plains of
Abraham) |
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1755-1763 |
Acadian expulsion |
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1763 |
Pontiac’s War |
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1763 |
Treaty of Paris (North America divided
between Britain & Spain) |
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1763 |
Royal Proclamation |
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1771 |
Samuel Hearne explores Coppermine
River |
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1774 |
Quebec Act |
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1775-1783 |
American War of Independence |
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1778 |
James Cook arrives in Nootka Sound |
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1779 |
North West company formed |
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1779 |
Smallpox outbreak in the prairies |
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1783 |
Treaty of Paris (American
Independence) |
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1786-1795 |
Joseph Brant’s Northwest Indian War |
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1789 |
Alexander Mackenzie explores Mackenzie
River |
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1789 |
Nootka Crisis |
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1790 |
Nootka Convention |
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1791 |
Constitutional Act (Upper & Lower
Canada) |
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1792-1795 |
George Vancouver explores Pacific
Northwest coastline |
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1808 |
Simon Fraser explores Fraser River |
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1811-1813 |
Tecumseh’s War |
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1811 |
David Thompson explores Columbia River |
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1812 |
Selkirk Settlement grant |
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1812-1815 |
British American War |
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1815 |
Treaty of Ghent (49th
parallel border) |
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1816 |
Battle of Seven Oaks |
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1821 |
HBC & NWC merger |
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1830 |
Indian Removal Act (Trail of Tears) |
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1845 |
John Franklin North-West Passage
expedition |
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1846 |
Oregon Country Treaty |
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1857 |
Fraser Canyon Gold Rush |
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1858 |
Fraser Canyon War |
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1861-1865 |
American Civil War |
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1862 |
Cariboo Gold Rush |
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1862 |
Smallpox outbreak in the Pacific
Northwest |
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1864 |
Chilcotin War |
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1867 |
Dominion of Canada established
(Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia) |
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1869 |
Charter for Rupert’s Land surrendered
to Britain |
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1869 |
Red River Rebellion |
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1870 |
First commercial salmon cannery in
B.C. |
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1870 |
Manitoba joins Confederation |
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1870 |
Rupert’s Land transferred to Canada
and added to Northwest Territories |
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1870 |
Battle of Belly River |
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1871 |
B.C. joins Confederation |
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1871-1877 |
Treaties 1-7 are signed |
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1872 |
Dominion Lands Act |
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1873 |
Prince Edward Island joins
Confederation |
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1873 |
R.C.M.P. established |
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1876 |
Indian Act |
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1876-1877 |
Great Sioux War (Battle of Little Bighorn) |
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1880 |
Arctic Islands transferred to Canada
and added to Northwest Territories |
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1881-1885 |
Construction of the CPR railway |
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1885 |
North-West Rebellion |
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1889-1897 |
Peasant Farm Policy |
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1890 |
Wounded Knee Massacre |
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1894 |
Residential Schools established |
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1896-1899 |
Klondike Gold Rush |
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1898 |
Yukon created |
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1899-1921 |
Treaties 8-11 are signed |
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1905 |
Alberta & Saskatchewan created |