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John Cabot was the first to map Canada's Atlantic shore, setting foot on Newfoundland or Cape Breton Island in 1497 and claiming the New Founde Land for England.
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Jacques Cartier made three voyages across the Atlantic, claiming the land for King Francis.
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The first European settlement north pf Flordia was established by French explorers.
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Champlain built a fortress at what is now Quebec City.
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English Settlement.
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King Charles The Second of England granted Hudsons Bay compamy exclusive Trading Rights.
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The French and Iroquois made peace.
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The first representative assemply was elected in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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The first Representative Assembly was elected in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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The British defeated the French in the battle of the plains of Abraham at Quebec City.
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Prince Edward Island.
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To better govern the French Roman Catholic majority, the British parliament passed the Quebec Act.
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13 Britsh Colonies to the south of Quebec declared independence and formed the United States.
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New Brunswick.
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Divded the province of Quebec into Upper Canada (later Ontario), which was mainly Loyalist, protestant and English-speaking, and Lower Canada (later Quebec), heavily Catholic and French speaking.
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Some black Nova Scotians, who were given poor land, moved on to establish Freetown, Sierra Leone (West Africa), a new British colony for freed slaves.
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The first elected Assembly of Lower Canada, in Quebec city, debates whether to use both French and English.
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After The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte's fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar, the Royal Navy ruled the waves.
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The British Parliament prohibite dthe buying and selling of slaves.
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United States launched and invasion to conquer Canada.
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Lieutenant-Colonel Charles de Salaberry and 460 soldiers, most French Canadiens, turned back 4,000 American invaders at Chateauguay, south of Montreal.
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The Americans burned Government House and the Parliament Buildings in York (now Toronto).
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The attempt to conquer Canada had failed.
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The Montreal Stock Exchange opened.
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Abolished slavery throughout the Empire.
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upper and Lower Canada were united as the Province of Canada.
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The first British North American colony to attain full responsible government was Nova Scotia.
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From 1864 to 1867, representatives of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the Province of Canada, with British support, worked together to establish a new country.
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Ontario,Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick
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The British Parliament passed the British North American Act.
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The fathers of confederation established the Dominon of Canada on July 1th.
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Manitoba, Northwest Territories
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British Columbia
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Prince Edward Island
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Transfer of the Arctic Islands (to N.W.T.)
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Yukon Territory
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Alberta, Saskatchewan
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Newfoundland and Labrador
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Nunavut