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Jan 1, 1200
First People cross into the Americas
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Jan 1, 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
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•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
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British conquest of Quebec
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Treaty of Paris
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Establishment of the Northwest Company and expansion of HBC trading postsinto the interior; voyageurs and Métis nation
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Vikings land in L'Anse aux Meadows