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Apr 11, 1497
John Cabbot
john cabbot was the first to map canada's atliantic shore -
Apr 11, 1534
jacques
Jacques cartier made there voyage's across the atlantic claming
the land of king francis -
Apr 11, 1542
Cartier
Cartier herad two captured guieds speak the iroquoion word canada meaning village -
Apr 11, 1550
canada's name
the name of canada began appearing an maps -
English Colonies
English Colonies along the atlantic seaboard dating from the early 1600's eventually became richer and more populous than new france -
the european
The european settlement north of florida was established by french explorer's -
Champlain Bulit
Champlain bulit a fortress at what is now que'bec city -
King Charles
In King Charles ll of England granted the hudson's bay company
exclusive trading rights over the watershed draining into hudson bay -
France's battle with britain
In the 1700 french and great britian battled for control of north america -
The French
The french and the iraquois made peace in 1701 -
The first respresentaive
the firts representative assembly was elected in halilfax -
price edward
Elections -
British won
in 1759 the british defeated the french in the battle of plains -
pei
election -
New brunswick
Elections -
Quebec act
To better govern the frnch roman catholic majority the british parliament passed the quebec act of 1774 -
British
In 1776 the 13 british colonies to the south of quebec declared independence and formed the united states -
The consitituitional act of 1785
the constitutinal act -
Provicen of canada
provicne of quebec in upper canada later ontario -
nova scotians
In turn 1792 some black nova scotians who were given poor landb moved on to establish free town -
Upper canada led by lieutenat
Jhon graves ssimcoe a loyalist military offcer became the firts provincen in the empire -
the royal navy
The royal navy ruled the waves the british empire -
The parliament
the british parliament prohibited the buying and selling of slaves -
the war of 1812 the fight for canada
after the deafaet of napoleon bonaparte's fleet in the battle of trafalgar -
lieutentant-colonel
charles de salaberry and 460 soldiers mostly french canadiens -
The americans
The americans burned goverment house and parliament buildingsn in york -
in retaliation in 1814
Major-genereal robert ross led an expedition from nova scotia -
THe reformers
the 1830 reformers in upper and lower canada believed that progress toward full demnocracy was too slow -
A growing econony
In 1832 for centuries canads economy was baes on framing -
slavery
in 1833 abolished slavery throughout the empire -
upper and lower canada
Upper and lower were united as the province of canada -
the governor
The governor of united canada -
representatives of nova 1864 to 1867
these men are know as the fathers of confederation