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Jan 1, 1000
The first people arrive in the area.
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Feb 1, 1000
The Vikings explore what is now Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and New Brunswick.
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Jan 1, 1497
Explorer John Cabot sails to Canada's east coast and claims it for England.
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Jan 1, 1534
Explorer Jacques Cartier claims the area now known as Quebec for France.
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The Treaty of Paris ends seven years of fighting between France and England. France gives its Canadian settlements to England.
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Colonies now known as Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec join to create the Dominion of Canada.
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Canada creates the North-West Mounted Police, now known as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or Mounties, to help keep order.
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" O Canada " ( the national anthem) was first sung on 1880 but it was not the anthem unitl 1980
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Canada flies its red and white maple leaf flag for the first time.
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English and French become Canada's official languages.