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Feb 16, 1534
•Cartier lands in Newfoundland,
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•Champlain establishes Port Royal,
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•Champlain establishes Quebec City
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•First Filles du Rois arrive in New France,
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•Jean Talon, intendant of New France
1668 -
•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,
1763 -
•British conquest of Quebec
1760 -
•Treaty of Paris,
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•Establishment of the Northwest Company and expansion of HBC trading postsinto the interior; voyageurs and Métis nation,
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•Vikings land in L'Anse aux Meadows
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