A TIMELINE OF CANADA
By Tim Lambert
1497 Jean Cabot sails to Newfoundland
1535 Jacques Cartier 1491-1557) sails into the St Lawrence River
1603 Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635) founds Port Royal
1608 de Champlain founds Quebec
1610 Henry Hudson discovers Hudson Bay
1642 The French found Montreal
1670 The English found the Hudson Bay Company
1685 The population of New France is about 10,000
1713 France is forced to recognise Hudson Bay and Newfoundland as British. They are also forced to cede Nova Scotia.
1740 The population of New France is about 48,000
1759 Wolfe captures Quebec
1760 The British capture Montreal
1763 The French are forced to surrender all their territory in Canada to Britain
1774 The Quebec Act allows French Canadians to keep their own religion and to keep their own criminal law
1775 Canada has a population of about 90,000. In November the Americans capture Montreal
1776 The Americans retreat
1791 The Lawrence River Valley is divided into Upper and Lower Canada
1791-94 George Vancouver (1757-1798) sails along the west coast of Canada
1793 Alexander Mackenzie (1755-1820) crosses the continent by land and reaches the Pacific
1837 A rebellion takes place in Canada
1867 The Dominion of Canada is formed
1870 Manitoba is made a province
1885 The Canadian Pacific Railway is built
1896 Gold is discovered in the Klondike region of the Yukon
1933 During the Depression unemployment in Canada reaches 23%
1961 The population of Canada reaches 18 million
1999 North West Territories is divided into two and a new territory called Nunavut is created