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Oct 6, 1000
First People cross into the Americas
18,000 B.C. -
Oct 6, 1200
Vikings land in L'Anse aux Meadows
985 CE -
Oct 6, 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
1665 to 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
1756 – 1763 -
British conquest of Quebec
1759 – 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
1770s