The Human Migration into Canada

  • Jan 1, 1534

    Cartier lands in Newfoundland

  • Champlain establishes Port Royal

  • Champlain establishes Quebec City

  • First Filles du Rois arrive in New France

  • Jean Talon, intendant of New France

  • Radisson and des Groseilliers reach Hudson Bay

  • King of England grants Hudson’s Bay Company a monopoly of trade in Rupertsland

  • Expulsion of the Acadians

  • Seven Years War

  • British conquest of Quebec

  • Treaty of Paris

  • •Establishment of the Northwest Company and expansion of HBC trading postsinto the interior; voyageurs and Métis nation

  • Vikings land in L'Anse aux Meadows

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    The Migration to Canada