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Jan 1, 1492
The Vikings Visit Canada
The Vikings come to Canada, meeting with the Inuit peoples in a clash that results violence between the two peoples. The Vikings decide to leave as they realize that fighting with the Inuit will make it much more difficult than they wish to attempt to build a proper ship post on the contenant. -
Dec 15, 1497
Jean Cabot Arrives at Canada
Jean Cabot arrives at Cape Bonavista in Newfoundland, although he and his men did not explore further inland and instead stayed for only a short while to gather fresh water and explore the coast. No contact with natives happened but signs up human life were found. This discouvery helped the english move in to provide sailers with plentiful fishing opprotunities. -
Champlain Founds Quebec City
Samuel de Champlain, though not the first to try to build a settlement in Quebec, was the first person to make a permanent successful settlement in the area, providing the French with a colony for potential settlers. -
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France Claims Canada with Quebec City
With the foundation of Quebec city, which soon becomes the capital of 'New France', France Claims Canada as its own. There was little done to encourage travel and colonization of the settlement however, and 150 years after it is settle, Quebec city only has a population of 8000. New France and Quebec was handed over to the British at the end of the 7 year war -
Henry Hudson Arrives at Hudson's Bay
Henry Hudson, under an expidition for the Crown and looking for the fabled north-west passage to Asia, arrives at Hudson's Bay. This discouvery helped establish a connection to the land locked parts of Canada, something that helped the formation of the Hudson's Bay company as they could now trade with the Aboriginal peoples further into Canada, -
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The Fur Trade Boom
During this time period, there was little immigration in the form of colonies in Canada, besides New France the majority of people that came were male fur traders hoping to make their fortunes in the Canadian wilderness. Families were very rare during this time period. -
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The Loyalist Migration
During this time period, those who were loyal to Great Britan, or who were simply neutral on the topic of revolution to succeed from them, were either exiled or journeyed to Canada. Some 100,000 peoples settled in Canada due to this. -
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The Underground Railroad
Although it was started in 1793, the 'railroad' was not called the underground railroad until 1830, and say most of its use in the 1840-1860's. The underground railroad was a series of paths and safehouses that lead north to Canada, where at the time if a slave could cross the border into Canada, they would be considered free peoples under the 1793 'Act to Limit Slavery'. -
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The Great Migration to Canada
During this time period, as many as 800,000 Immigrants, with 60% of those coming over being British. -
The Great Potato Famine
The Great Potato Famine was when the potato, the number one source of food in Ireland at the time, was affected by a disease that decimated the crop. As a result there was mass famine on the isles and a mass migration took place to new lands in search of better opprotunities. -
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Chinese Immagrants and the Gold Rush
In 1859, started by the Fraser Canyon gold rush, there was a great rush of Chinese gold prospectors who arrived to Canada to work in what they called 'the gold mountain'. This massive immigration period ended with the enactment of the Chinese Immagration Act -
Canada Becomes a Country
Canada officially becomes a country all of its own, forming its own provinces and working on uniting the rest of the country in total unification. The act of Canada becoming its own country with the power to make its own laws enticed more people to come to Canada, especially many British subjects who were seeking new lifestyles on this new land. -
Manitoba is Founded
Manitoba is Founded and recognized by the Canadian government, this provides a place for Metis people to call their own and properly settle into. What's more is that because of this the land everywhere around Manitoba can be properly settled by homesteaders who were anxious to settle in the land but were stopped by Louis Riel before. -
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The Dominion Land Act
During the time period, the Canadian government offered land to people in the North-West territories of Canada to prevent the land from being claimed from the Americans and to encourage farming in the area. -
The Chinese Immigration Act and Head Tax
The Canadian government feels that there is too many people coming to Canada from Asia, most noctoriusly the Chinese as a large number of them had come from the gold rush era as well as to work on the Trans-Canada Railway. This new act charged Chinese immagrants based on the number of people they were bringing with them over to Canada. -
The Trans Canada Railroad is complete
With the completion of the Trans Canada railroad complete, immigration throughout Canada was much easier to manage, especially now that access to the more western parts of the country were more easily accessable, allowing prospectors to reach land that would before take a very long time to travel to. -
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Jewish Immigration to Canada
138,000 thousand Jews immigrated to Canada due to racism that they faced in eastern Europe and Czarist Russia, fearing for their livelihoods and searching for better safer prospects in Canada. -
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American Migration to Canada
During this time period, as many as 750,000 immagrants from the US came to Canada. Many were returning Canadians, while one third of those coming were from peoples from Europe who originally settled in America and decided to move to Canada -
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The Continuous Journey Regulation, and the Komagata Maru Incident
On January 8th, 1908, the Canadian government placed restrictions on immigration to Canada that required it was made in one continuous trip, preventing most Indian immigrants due to the distance of the trip. The Komagata Maru incident was caused when 376 passangers were denied docking access and were forced to sail back to India. -
The War Act
At the start of WW1, Canada passed an act that allowed the government to arrest and deport 'enemy aliens' that Canada was fighting with, This prevented many peoples from immigrating to Canada while also deporting other peoples who had immigrated to Canada.
