Line Time Canadian History

Line time Canadian history

• 1000 AD Vikings arrived

• 1497 john Cabot came to Newfoundland

• 1534 Jacques Cartier ( he discover the great lakes)

• 1608 Samuel de Champlain ( he stabled the French colony )

• 1670 Hudson bay company was found

• 1769 battle of the plain Abraham

• 1763 the treaty of Paris

• 1778 James Cooke explored the west coast

• 1783 loyalist came from the USA

• 1791 the BNA established upper and lower Canada

• 1812 the war 1802 ( Canada between USA)

• 1821 north west fur trading company

• 1837- 1838 rebellion against the British by upper and lower Canada

• 1848 responsible government was grated ( had their own rights to make law)

• 1864 confederation meeting ( Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, New Brunswick , Nova Scotia) at Charlottetown

• July 1st, 1867 Canada become a country ( Quebec, Ontario , new Brunswick, Nova Scotia )

• 1870 the red river resistance, Manitoba was created

• 1871 British Columbia joined Canada

• 1873 Prince Edward Island joined Canada, the north west mounted police was established

• 1885 the Canadian pacific railway is finished ( from bc , Ontario , Quebec ), the Saskatchewan rebellion was settled

• 1898 The Klondike Gold Rush was found gold ( every looked for gold )

• 1899 The Boer War between British and south Africa

• 1905 Saskatchewan and Alberta were created

• 1914- 1918 World War I

• 1916 women won the rights to vote Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta

• 1929 – 1939 The Great Depression , The Dirty Thirties ( Called in Canada)

• 1939-1945 World War II

• 1949 Newfoundland joined Canada

• 1950 – 1953 the Korean War

• 1959 St. Lawrence seaway opened ( the way to bring ship into the great lakes )

• 1960 Native Canadian were allowed to vote, Revolution In Quebec wanted to separate of Canada

• 1967 centennial anniversary , 100 years

• 1970 October crisis ( political kidnapping )

• 1980 referendum was Quebec about sovereignty, it was vote, but 60 % said no

• 1982 the constitution was created and it included the Canadian charter of right and freedom

• 1999 Nunavut was created

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