During the late ice age a bridge of land connected Canada with Asia where the Bering Strait now separates them. It is beleived that the small bands of Indian People crossed this bridge from Asia in search of food more than 20,000 years ago. Archaeologists have found traces of early men in caves in the Western United States and some stone tools dating back to 15,000 B.C. Archaeologists have traced one ancient way of life called the Folsom culture in the Great Plains Region. Each culture developed distinctive ways of life by the time the Vikings sailed down the eastern coast of Canada from their settlements in Iceland and Greenland around 1000 A.D. Dates in History of Canada 1497 John Cabot landed on the east coast of Canada 1534 Jacques Cartier discovered the Gulf of St. Lawrence 1604 Samuel Champlain and Sieur De monts founded a colony at the mouth of the St. Croix River in New Brunswick 1608 Samuel Champlain founded Quebec 1642 French Settlers founded the city of Quebec 1689-1763 in a series of ward, the british captured Quebec and conquered New France 1774 French Canadians won political and religious rights by the terms of the Quebec Act 1775-1783 During the Revolutionary War in America Colonial Troops unsuccessfully attacked Canada, Loyalists moved to Canada from the Usa colonies 1791 The old Province of Quebec was divided into Upper and Lower Canada 1837-8 Rebellions broke out in both colonies 1839 Lord Durham urged self government for Canada 1840 The Union Act joined Upper and Lower Canada under a single governor and legislature 1848 The United Colony won limited self government 1858 British Columbia was established as a colony 1864 A meeting at Quebec made plans for confederation 1867 The British North America Act established the Dominion of Canada and the English began trading into the Hudsons Bay which had become organized in 1670 by the Cree and became a fur trading trapping post for the Eskimo. The Northwest Company began to get under way in the 1770's and in 1816 after the Red River War, the two companies merged. Alexander Mackenzie was the first person to cross Canada coast to Coast. Rhiel, who claimed to be of Indian ancestry but was of French ancestry provoked the the North West rebellion on the farm of William McIntosh in Battleford, Sask. and Louis Rhiel also provoked needless war between the french Indian and the Ontarions. In 1875 the R.C.M.P. were organized to stop the trade of whiskey, which ended in three months. Information taken from my Gr 7 History exam. maggie nee Mcintosh mpeters@xcelco.on.ca