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Mar 17, 1534
•Cartier lands in Newfoundland, 1534
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•Champlain establishes Quebec City, 1608
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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, 1668
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•King of England grants Hudson��s Bay Company a monopoly of trade in Rupertsland, 1670
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•First Filles du Rois arrive in New France, 1663
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•Expulsion of the Acadians, 1755
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•Seven Years War, 1756 – 1763
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•British conquest of Quebec 1759 – 1760
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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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•Champlain establishes Port Royal, 1604
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•Vikings land in L'Anse aux Meadows, 985 CE