Canada History Timeline

12,000 BC first Canadian Indian settlements Most famous today - Inuit http://firstpeoplesofcanada.com/index.html

1000 AD – mid 1300s Viking Settlers - Newfoundland

1497 AD John Cabot - First English Explorer

1530 AD Jacques Cartier - French Explorer, looking for passage, fish, converts

1608 AD - First permanent French City Quebec City

1713 AD British Takeover Nova Scotia

1763 AD - End of French Indian War, British wins creates provinces - governmental districts, in Canada

1781 1000s of loyalists flee to Canada after the American Revolution

1800s 1000s of American slaves fled to Canada

War of 1812 create a more permanent boundary between U.S. and Canada Although the U.S. and Canada share the world’s 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. War of 1812 create a more permanent boundary between U.S. and Canada

1867 AD Canadian Dominion formed

1914-1917 Canada fights WWI allies with Great Britain

1939 – 1945 Canada fights in WWII allies of Great Britain, U.S.

Read - See Chart on page 191 for Canada’s ethnic Make-up, Religions