Canada History

By, Sarah Dunn, Timmy Thompson, Sam Lombardo

First Inhabitants

• Asians: The first Asians crossed over the Bering Strait in B.C. 1300

• Vikings: arrive in Newfoundland in A.D. 1ooo, after discovering it while looking for Greenland. They came from Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

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Settlers

• French: The French arrived in the 1600’s over the Atlantic Ocean and founded New France

• British: The British arrived in the 1600’s and took political control in 1763 and the number of English- speaking people

rose in Canada afterward

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British immigrants

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French immigrants

Push and Pull Factors

• Pull: Fishing, minerals, timber, transportation corridors

• Push: Weather, frozen land, transportation barriers

Historical Events

• 1763- Treaty of Paris gives Canada to Great Britain

• 1931- Canada gains complete independence from Great Britain

• 1939- 1945- more than 1,000,000 Canadians serve in World War II; almost 100,000 died

• 1965- The current Canadian flag was adopted to show that it was only Canada

Citations

• Préfontaine, Ève. "The Settlement of Canada." Keys to History. Web. 24 Feb 2010. <http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/scripts/explore.php?Lang=1&tableid=11&tablename=theme&elementid=15__true&contentlong>.

• Grabowski, John F. Modern Nations of the World: Canada. 1st ed. 3 vols. San Diego, CA: Lucent books, 1998. 96-103. Print.

• "Timeline: Canada." BBC. 11 Jan, 2010. Web. 25 Feb 2010. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1203358.stm>.

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