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Canadian History Timeline, A.D. 1000-1984 (This is only part of the document on the Internet) -N, This timeline is adapted from Atlantic Canadian History class assignments, Mount Allison f j University, 1991-93, and "Notable dates in Canadian History," The Canadian World Almanac and '-, Book of Facts, 1989 (Toronto: Global Press, 1988), pp. 21-27. Notir1eation of errors is appreciated: iay@cc.wwu.edu 17th CENTURY: 1670. Hudson's Bay Company is formed and granted trade rights over all territory draining into Hudson's Bay . 1f CENTURY: 1713. Treaty of Utrecht cedes French Acadia, Newfoundland, Hudson Bay and the "country of the Iroquois" to England 1759. British troops under Wolfe defeat French forces under Montcalm at Quebec; both generals are killed; Quebec falls. Governor of Nova Scotia invites New Englanders to settle. 1789. Alexander Mackenzie journeys to the Beaufort Sea, following what would later be named the Mackenzie River. 19th CENTURY: 1818. 49th parallel is British North America/US. border/Lake of the Woods to Rockies. 1821. Hudson's Bay Company merges with rivals, Montreal-based North West Company. _ 1849. The 490 parallel boundary extended to Pacific Ocean (bisecting Point Roberts'.). . 1854. Reciprocity (free trade) begins between British North America and the United States c, 1857. Queen Victoria names Ottawa as Canada's capital 1864. Quebec Conference sets out terms of union for British North American colonies 1867. Confederation of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario forms the Dominion of Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald becomes Canada's first prime minister 1869. Hudson's Bay Company surrenders territorial rights to Rupert's Land to Crown 1873. Global economic depression begins. 1874. Ontario School of Agriculture and Experimental Farm established at Guelph. 1876. Intercolonial Railway linking central Canada to Maritime provinces completed. 1885. Transcontinental railway is completed in Eagle Pass, B.C.; 9 days later, Louis Riel is hanged in Regina. 1897. Klondike gold rush begins 1899. Boer War begins; first Canadian troops to serve overseas are sent to South Africa 20th CENTURY 1900. Federal immigration policy entices Eastern Europeans to Canadian West 1901. Marconi receives nrst transatlantic radio message at St. John's, Newfoundland 1903. Canada loses Alaska Boundary dispute as British representative sides with US. Prospector in northern Ontario stumbles across the world's richest silver vein. 1910. Cochrane, Ontario incorporated. Northland published. 20 businesses burned. 1911. First BIG FIRE burns town of Cochrane on July 11. 1912. S.S. Titanic sinks off Newfoundland; recovered bodies are buried in Halifax. ' 1913. Canadian economy goes into a slump