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CALGARY, ALBERTA HISTORY TIMELINE


1534	The King of France dispatched Jacques Cartier to the north Atlantic coast of the New World. Cartier calls this land Canada, a variant of the Huron word Kanata, which means "settlement".
1588	Beaver hats become fashionable and the fur trading industry begins in Canada.
1603	Samuel de Champlain arrives from France and settles at the Bay of Fundy.
1608	Champlain travels up the St. Lawrence River with a group of settlers and founds a fort called Habitation of Quebec.
1611	Henry Hudson is left to die by a mutinous crew who seizes his ship.
1615	First priests arrive at Quebec. Seven year Indian War ends.
1635	Champlain dies.
1620	Nova Scotia founded by Scottish poet William Alexander.
1629	Habitation is captured by the English Kirke brothers
1632	War with England ends and Quebec is returned to France.
1642	A group of French mystics arrive and found Montreal.
1649	The Iroquois defeat the Hurons and shut down fur trading on the St. Lawrence River.
1654-1659	Des Groseilliers and Radisson travel to the upper Great Lakes region.
1663	King Louis XIV took control of New France from the Cent-Associes, converting it from a commercial colony to a royal colony.
1667	War with the Iroquois ends.
1670	Hudson's Bay Company founded.
1673	Marquette explores the upper Mississippi.
1682	French soldiers capture several Hudson's Bay posts. LaSalle travels by boat down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.
1701	The Iroquois sign a peace treaty with New France and agree not to join any colonial wars between England and France.
1702	War of the Spanish Succession begins
1706	French pillage English Newfoundland
1709	French pillage English Newfoundland
1710	British New Englanders capture Acadia.
1713	War of the Spanish Succession ends with the Treaty of Utrecht. France cedes Newfoundland, Acadia, and Hudson's Bay area.
1717	French re-open post at Rainey Lake. The English build Fort Churchill.
1732	French open post at Lake-of-the-Woods
1739	England and Spain go to war

1740s	French establish posts across southern Manitoba to the forks of the Saskatchewan River and Fort A la Corne
1744	England goes to war with France
1745	English capture the French Atlantic port of Ile Royal.
1749	Ile Royal returned to the French. Halifax, Nova Scotia is founded by the English.
1755	10,000 Acadians are ejected by the English, resettling in New Brunswick and Louisiana.
1759	Quebec City falls to the British.
1760	Montreal falls to the British.
1763	With the Treaty of Paris, New France becomes an English colony.
1776	Alexander Mackenzie founds the Northwest Company in order to trade in furs west of Hudson's Bay territory.
1787-88	David Thompson, Hudson�s Bay Company trader, winters with Indians near present-day Calgary
1789	Alexander Mackenzie discovers the Arctic Ocean.
1791	Upper Canada (Ontario) and Lower Canada (Quebec) are created.
1793-94	Alexander Mackenzie reaches Bella Coola and the Pacific Ocean. Peter Fidler spends winter with Piegan Indians near High River
1795	Fort Edmonton built
1799	Fort established at Rocky Mountain House
1800	David Thompson returns to further explore the Bow River Country
1803	England and France go to war again.
1808	Simon Fraser follows his namesake river to the Pacific Ocean.
1811	David Thompson travels the Columbia River to the Pacific.
1812	The United States tires of England capturing American merchant marines at sea and drafting them to into the English Army to fight the French. They declare war on the English and attack outposts in Upper and Lower Canada.
1814	The War of 1812 ends with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent.
1821	Northwest Company and Hudson's Bay Company merge, and retain the Hudson's Bay name.
1831	British relinquished control of local revenues to her seven colonies.
1838	Lower Canada constitution was suspended.
1850s	The four Maritime Provinces and the Province of Canada were self-governed.

1840	Rev. Robert Rundle reaches Edmonton
22 Feb 1841	Rev. Robert Rundle reaches Rocky Mountain House
Sept 1845	Father PJ deSmet, a Belgian Priest, reaches the Bow River
1850s	The four Maritime Provinces and the Province of Canada become self-governed.
1858	Capt. John Palliser and a survey party camp at present-day Calgary
1867	Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick sign the Constitution of 1867
1870	Rupert's Land, the Northwest Territories and Manitoba join the Federation.
1871	British Columbia joins the Dominion of Canada. Fred Kanouse builds a crude trading post at Calgary
1873	Prince Edward Island became a member of the union.
1874	Detachment of Northwest Mounted Police depart Toronto
1875	Northwest Mounted Police arrive at Bow and Elbow Rivers near present day Calgary
1880	The British contributed the Arctic Islands to the Domain of Canada in 1880.
1881	First sawmill in Western Canada built at Canmore
1882	Lake Louise discovered by outfitter and guide, Tom Wilson
1883	Canadian Pacific Railway reaches Calgary from Winnipeg
1884	Calgary forms first town council
1885	Downtown Calgary burns in a fire
1886	First hotel built in Banff at present site of Banff Springs Hotel
1881	Calgary to Edmonton branch of CPR completed
1898	Yukon Territory is carved out of the Northwest Territories.
1905	Alberta and Saskatchewan are carved out of the Northwest Territories.
1912	Manitoba is enlarged.
2-5 Sep 1912	First Calgary Stampede
1913-1914	Calgary Oil Boom
21 July 1916	Prohibition begins
1917	Father LaCombe and Rev. John McDougall die
1949	Newfoundland and Labrador relinquish British colony status and join the Dominion of Canada.
1976	Parti Quebecois calls for separation of Quebec from Canada.

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