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1000
Vikings
Things about vikings: The Viking Settlements. Vinland was the name given to part of North America by the Icelandic Norseman Leif Eiríksson, about year 1000. Later archaeological evidence of Norse settlement in North America was found in L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada. -
1497
John cabot discovers New Found Land
In May 1497, with the support of the English king Henry VII, Cabot sailed west from Bristol on the Matthew in the hope of finding a route to Asia. On the 24th of June, he sighted land and called it New-found-land. He believed it was Asia and claimed it for England. He returned to England and began to plan a second expedition. -
1534
Jacques Cartier (Cartier is one of the people who named canada)
French mariner Jacques Cartier was the first European to navigate the St. Lawrence River, and his explorations of the river and the Atlantic coast of Canada, on three expeditions from 1534 to 1542, laid the basis for later French claims to North America. Also In 1535, French explorer Jacques Cartier used the word “Canada” to describe not just the village of Stadacona, but the entire area controlled by Aboriginal chief Donnacona. -
samuel de champlain 1600's
June 22, 1603 - Champlain travelled up the St. Lawrence River. 1605 Champlain and his group move from Saint Croix Island to Port Royal, Nova Scotia on the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia -
samuel de champlain discovered quebec
He made between 21 and 29 trips across the Atlantic Ocean, and founded Quebec, and New France, on 3 July 1608. An important figure in Canadian history, Champlain created the first accurate coastal map during his explorations, and founded various colonial settlements. -
Pierre-Esprit Radisson (Discovers Hudson's bay)
In 1681 Radisson headed out to found a fort on the Nelson River under a French flag, albeit against the wishes of the French state. He did so as a means of capturing the market, fearing the construction of a British fort on the same river and thus further dominance of the bay by the Hudson's Bay Company. -
The Hudson's bay company has is established
Charles II charters Hudson's Bay Company in London. Underwritten by a group of English merchants, HBC is granted trade rights over Rupert's Land -
The Treaty of Utrecht
The French cede Newfoundland and the Hudson Bay region. ... The Treaty of Utrecht ends Queen Anne's War, confirming British possession of Hudson Bay, Newfoundland and Acadia. -
The British expel acadians
Between 1755 and 1763, approximately 10,000 Acadians were deported. They were shipped to many points around the Atlantic. Large numbers were landed in the English colonies, others in France or the Caribbean. Thousands died of disease or starvation in the squalid conditions on board ship. -
Battle of the Plains of Abraham
On 9,13,1759, known as the Battle of Quebec.The British under General James got a dramatic victory when they scaled the cliffs over the city of Quebec to defeat French forces under Louis-Joseph de Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham. -
Royal Proclamation
What happen in 1763? After Britain won the Seven Years' War and gained land in North America, it issued the Royal proclamation of 1763, which prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachia. The Treaty of Paris, which marked the end of the French and Indian War, granted Britain a great deal of valuable North American land. If the Britain never won the war Canada would have been with Americans.
