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May 10, 1534
Jacques Cartier explores East Canada
Starting on May 10 of that year, he explored parts of Newfoundland, the areas now the Canadian Atlantic provinces and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In late July, he set up a cross at Pointe-Penouille on the Gaspé Pennisula to show France's claim to this "new" world. -
Period: May 10, 1534 to
The Reign of New France
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Samuel de Champlain: The Father of New France
He participated in an attack with the Huron alliance againest the group of Iroquois near the soon would be Lake Champlain, firing a shot into the group and instantly killed two Iroquois chiefs.
Over the next twenty years, Champlain worked tirelessly to build a sucessful colony. Champlain died in 1635. -
Jean Talon:The first Intendent of New France
Jean Talon was the Intendent for New France between 1665 to 1668 and a second term from 1670-1672. He boosted New France's wealth through organizing buildings for sawmills, docks, fisheries and breweries, increased trade with the Carribean and was responsible for setting up the filles du roi program. -
The Great Peace of Montreal
In 1701,1300 representatives of more than 40 First Nations peoples met leaders of New France in Montreal. The two sides signed a treaty to agree to cooperate in the future. The treaty was important because many First Nations would not help the British. -
Treaty of Paris; The end of New France
The end of the Seven Years' War, each side returned some places they had captured in the war but New France was not one of them, thus the French Empire in this area ended. -
The Royal Proclaimation of 1763
he Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
The American Declaration of 1776
In the summer of 1776, representatives held a meeting in Philedelphia and declared that the United States of America was an independent nation. They started the War of Independence and it lasted until 1783. -
The War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a military conflict, lasting for two-and-a-half years, fought by the United States of America against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies, and its American Indian allies. The war ended on February 18 1815, three years later.
