Canada History Timeline

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Canada History Timeline
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12,000 BC first Canadian Indian settlementsMost
famous today - Inuit
http//firstpeoplesofcanada.com/index.html
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1000 AD mid 1300s Viking Settlers -
Newfoundland
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1497 AD John Cabot - First English Explorer
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1530 AD Jacques Cartier - French Explorer,
looking for passage, fish, converts
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1608 AD - First permanent French City Quebec City
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1713 AD British Takeover Nova Scotia
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1763 AD - End of French Indian War, British wins
creates provinces - governmental districts, in
Canada
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17811000s of loyalists flee to Canada after the
American Revolution
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1800s1000s of American slaves fled to Canada
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War of 1812 create a more permanent boundary
between U.S. and Canada

• 1812
• Although the U.S. and Canada share the worlds
  longest unguarded border, the exact location of
  that border has not always been fixed. In fact,
  it took a war to firmly establish the boundary
  between the two countries.
• In the early 1800s, Americans and British
  Canadians came into conflict over possible uses
  for territory west of the Great Lakes. Tension
  over this issue was the major factor in the
  outbreak of the War of 1812. The two countries
  fought for more than two years without a clear
  winner. How, the Treaty of Ghent that ended the
  war called for the creation of a boundary
  commission to confirm the border between the two
  countries.

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1867 AD Canadian Dominion formed
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1914-1917 Canada fights WWIallies with Great
Britain
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1939 1945 Canada fights in WWIIallies of Great
Britain, U.S.
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Read - See Chart on page 191 for Canadas ethnic
Make-up, Religions