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Samuel de Champlain establishes a French colony at Quebec City.
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Quebec City is captured during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
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War of 1812: U.S. invades Canada
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"Canada is a country in North America consisting of 10 provinces and 3 territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean."
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World War I spreads and begins to evolutionize in Canada.
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On Sept. 20, 1917, women gained a limited right to vote. The nursing sisters at the Canadian hospital in France during World War I were among the first women to vote in any general election
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For six weeks in the summer of 1919 the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba was crippled by a massive and dramatic general strike
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"Between 1929 and 1939, the gross national product dropped 40% (compared to 37% in the US). Unemployment reached 27% at the depth of the Depression in 1933"
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The new Arctic territory of Nunavut is created
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Canada sets record for gold medals at the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. Canada had 26 total medals: Gold-14, Silver-7, Bronze-5.
