Following are the important dates:
1215: Mgna Carta: Greta charter of freedom
1497: john cabot drew east coast map.
1534-1542: Jacques Cartier voyages
1550: name of canada begin appearing.
1604: monte and champlain
1608: champlain fort, qubec
1670: king charles hudson bay
1759: battle of plains (english defeated french)
1755-1763: Great uphavel (acadians eported.
1763: Terrotorial rights by king george2.
1774: Quebec Act of religious freedom for Catholics
1775: Sir Guy Carleton (Lord Dorchester) defreated american invasion
1776: 13 British colonies to the south of Quebec declared independence
1791: The Constitutional Act of 1791 dividedthe Province of Quebec into Upper Canada (later Ontario), which was mainly Loyalist, Protestant and English-speaking, and Lower Canada (later Quebec), heavily Catholic and French-speaking. first legislative assembly.
1792: black Nova Scotians, who were given poor land, moved on to establish Freetown, Sierra Leone (West Africa)
1793: Upper Canada, led by Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe, a Loyalist
military officer, became the first province in the Empire to move toward slavery abolition.
1807: prohibited buying of slaves.
1812: American invasion and defeated.
1813: Government House and the Parliament Buildings in York (now Toronto).
1814: In retaliation in 1814, Major-General Robert Ross led an expedition from Nova Scotia that burned down the White House and other
public buildings in Washington, D.C.
1832: monteral stock exchange.
1833: aabloshed slavery throughout the empire.
1837-1838: Rebillions
1840: Sir Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine and Robert Baldwin, in parallel with Joseph Howe in Nova Scotia, worked with British governors
toward responsible government.
1847-1848: nova scotial first responsible goverment
1848-1849: Lord elgin introduced responsible goverment
1867: Dominion of canada (ontario, quebec, NB,NS)
1869: Canada took over the vast northwest region from the Hudson’s Bay Company
1870: Ottawa sent soldiers to retrake fort garry, Louis Riel led an armed uprising and seized Fort Garry, the
1870:Manitoba and NW terotoies. (way to learn 3,1,27,18,7, M B P A Y A)
1871:BC
1873
EI
1880:Artic Islands
1898:Yukon territorie
1905:AB,Sach
1949:NFL
1999:Nunavut
1885: second rebillion by Louis Riel.
1873: NWMP
1890-1900: economy boom
1899-1902: boer war (south African)
1917: Vimy RIdge April 9, Vimy DAy
1917: Voting rights to nurses and then to war spouse.
1918: all women voting right aged 21.
1918: victorious Battle of Amiens on August 8 unde Arther Curie.
1921: First woman MPAnges Macphil
1929: Great depression, stoc kmarket crashes.
1928,1932,1936: Phil edwards, trach and field campion.
1940: EMployment isurance.
1944: D da, juno Beach, invasion of normandy.
1944-1945: Liberated Neitherland
1947: ALberta oil reserves found.
1950-53: defended south korean with 500 dead and 1,000 wounded
1960: quebec rapid change known as the quiet revolution.
1960: aborginal vote
1965: quebec pension plan
1969: Official langugae act.
1800-1980: aborginal in school
1970: Asian immigrants started
