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Entangled histories

9 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · CAN LEFT · FRA RIGHT

1. 1534

   Jacques Cartier explores the St. Lawrence

   Jacques Cartier explored the Gulf of St. Lawrence and claimed the region for France, opening the way for later French interest in the fur trade and settlement.

   Colonisation · from the Canada chronicle · New France and the fur trade · REFS 2 — Canada, Samuel de Champlain

2. 1608

   Champlain founds Quebec

   Samuel de Champlain established Quebec as a fortified trading post on the St. Lawrence, founding the colony of New France and anchoring the French fur trade in alliance with Indigenous nations.

   Formation · from the Canada chronicle · New France and the fur trade · REFS 2 — Samuel de Champlain, Samuel de Champlain, Virtual Museum of New France

3. 1642

   Founding of Montreal

   French missionaries and settlers founded Ville-Marie, the future Montreal, as a mission and trading settlement that became a hub of the fur trade and a gateway to the interior.

   Formation · from the Canada chronicle · New France and the fur trade · REFS 1 — Canada

4. 13 September 1759

   Battle of the Plains of Abraham

   British forces defeated the French outside Quebec City in the decisive Battle of the Plains of Abraham, the turning point of the Seven Years' War in North America that led to the fall of New France.

   War & Rupture · from the Canada chronicle · New France and the fur trade · REFS 2 — Canada, Quebec Act, 1774

5. 1763

   Treaty of Paris cedes New France to Britain

   The Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years' War, with France ceding its North American mainland territories to Britain and bringing the French Catholic population of Canada under British rule.

   War & Rupture · from the Canada chronicle · British conquest and colonial British North America · REFS 2 — British North America Act, Quebec Act, 1774

6. 1774

   Quebec Act

   The Quebec Act restored French civil law, guaranteed freedom of Catholic worship, and enlarged Quebec's boundaries, securing the loyalty of French Canadians while inflaming the Thirteen Colonies.

   Politics & Power · from the Canada chronicle · British conquest and colonial British North America · REFS 2 — Quebec Act, 1774, Quebec Act 1774

7. 1791

   Constitutional Act divides the Canadas

   The Constitutional Act split Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada, creating separate English- and French-majority colonies each with an elected assembly.

   Politics & Power · from the Canada chronicle · British conquest and colonial British North America · REFS 1 — Canada

8. 1885

   North-West Resistance and the execution of Riel

   Métis and First Nations grievances on the prairies erupted in the North-West Resistance; its defeat and the hanging of Louis Riel deepened the divide between French and English Canada.

   War & Rupture · from the Canada chronicle · Confederation and nation-building across the continent · REFS 1 — Canada

9. 1917

   Conscription Crisis

   The imposition of compulsory military service deeply divided English and French Canada, becoming one of the most divisive episodes in Canadian political history.

   Politics & Power · from the Canada chronicle · The World Wars and growing autonomy · REFS 1 — Canada