1. Canada History Timeline

2. 12,000 BC first Canadian Indian settlements Most famous today - Inuit

3. 1000 AD – mid 1300s Viking Settlers - Newfoundland

4. 1497 AD John Cabot - First English Explorer

5. 1530 AD Jacques Cartier - French Explorer, looking for passage, fish, converts

6. 1608 AD - First permanent French City Quebec City

7. 1713 AD British Takeover Nova Scotia

8. 1763 AD - End of French Indian War, British wins creates provinces - governmental districts, in Canada

9. 1781 1000s of loyalists flee to Canada after the American Revolution

10. 1800s 1000s of American slaves fled to Canada

11. 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 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 create a more permanent boundary between U.S. and Canada

14. 1867 AD Canadian Dominion formed

15. 1914-1917 Canada fights WWI allies with Great Britain

16. 1939 – 1945 Canada fights in WWII allies of Great Britain, U.S.

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