Below is the timeline of all the events mentioned in the Discover Canada guide

Every date given in the book is listed below.

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1000 years ago

Vikings colonized greenland

Vikings
496

It is said that the lily flower (“fleur-de-lys”) was adopted by the french king

1215

Signing of magna carta (the great charter of freedoms)

1497

Cabot set foot on newfoundland and claimed it for england

John Cabot
1534-42

Cartier reached canada and claimed the land tor king francis i

Jacques Cartier,King Francis I
1550s

The name of canada began appearing on maps

1500s

Arrival of european traders, missionaries, soldiers and colonists

1500s

Aboriginal people were dying because of diseases to which they lacked immunity

aboriginals
1604

The first european settlement was established by french explorers

Pierre de Monts and Samuel de Champlain
1608

Foundation of quebec cities by champlain

Samuel de Champlain
1600s

Champlain allied the colony with some of local tribes and formed a confederation of first nations against iroquois

Samuel de Champlain, Algonquin, Montagnais, Huron, Iroquois
1600s

English colonies along the atlantic seaboard eventually became richer and more populous than new france.

1600s

A french empire in north america that reached from hudson bay to the gulf of mexico built and there was a growing fur related economy.

Jean Talon, Bishop Laval, and Count Frontenac
1701

The french and the iroquois made peace

1700s

France and great britain battled for control of north america

1700s

The beaver was adopted as a symbol of the hudson’s bay company.

1758

The first representative assembly was elected in halifax, nova scotia

1759

The british defeated the french in the battle of the plains of abraham at québec city , marking the end of france’s empire in america

Brigadier James Wolfe, Marquis de Montcalm
1700s

Great britain renamed the colony the “province of quebec.”

1773

Prince edward island's first representative assembly was elected

1774

The british parliament passed the quebec act of 1774