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Aug 29, 1500
Algonquins and Iroquois
-Algonquins lived in the north opposite to the Iroquois who lived in the south.
-Algonquins followed the animals and were nomade while the Iroquios were semi-sendentary and moved after 10 years when the soil was no longer fertile.
-The Algonquins lived in tents and the Iroquiens lived in long houses -
Period: Aug 29, 1500 to
Population and Settlement
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Sep 2, 1534
Jaques Cartier Voyage
-Went on a voyage to find a new route to Asia, Gold and riches and land for the King but accidentaly he discoved North America
-Automin Turks blocked the route to Asia by land -
Port Royal
-First trading post
-Failed because of geographycal position
-Natives didn't want to travel to Nova-Scotia
-First attempt at a colonie -
Start of New France
Samuel Champlain returned to create a trading post and created Stadacona. (Where the river narrows) -
Company of One Hundread Assosiates
Project created to populate the colony, it aracted hundreads of people but was not close to the goal they were trying to achieve. -
Seigneurial regime
The seigneur were people who owned rectangle plots of land and paid and sold some to the censitaires (peasants) to cultivate. They were high the the chart, close to royalty. -
Jean Talon
Jean Talon was ordered to populate the new settlement. He created insentives to keep people and invited the filees de roy to help populate in the settlement -
Treaty of Paris
This treaty ended the war of seven years between Great Britain and France. -
Royal Proclamation
Created to improve the relations with the natives by giving them a bigger part of land from the french -
The Declaration of Independance
The French had alot of priviliges and land over the thirteen colonies which angered them. They therefore became independant so they were no longer a part of the British. -
Loyalists Immgration
36 000 loyalists came to Canada and 6 000 loyalists came to QC. This group of people were the population that always stayed loyal to Britain -
Imperial Act
The act to try to abolish slavery. Simcoe knew it was wrong by the laws of Christianity. -
Third wave of immigration
Irish immigrated to Canada becasue of big potato famine. They were hated by the french because they would work for less and take the jobs of the french -
Emigration to the United States and the West
People started moving out of the city because they were losing there jobs to the irish who worked for less. -
Start of Contemporary Period
This period Includes policies to promote immigration and increase of the urban population -
Indian Act
The written laws for the Natives Therefore the rules on how indian groups can act. -
National Policy
Try to populate the west and create rails to transport in fear of loosing land in an American invasion -
James Bay Agreement
Natives made agreement to create a hydroelectric dam (biggest in Canada) -
Oka Crisis
The goverment wanted to create a golf course on the land of the Natives, (Oka) but the Mowaks had created a road block. They had gotten the soldiers involved. It lasted 78 days. -
Brain Drain
Most of the smartest people from 3rd world countries emigrate to countries like Canada, for better pay or better living styles
