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Grant of Acadia to Sir W. Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1621
Company of the One Hundred a.s.sociates incorporated . . . . . . 1627
Quebec taken from the French by Kirke . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1629
Treaty of St. Germain-en-Laye. Canada restored to France . . . 1632
Death of Champlain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1635
Founding of Montreal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1642
Acadia taken by the English . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1645
Destruction of the Huron Missions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1648-50
Company of One Hundred a.s.sociates dissolved and Canada taken over by the French Crown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1663
New York taken by Great Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1664
Expedition of Tracy and Courcelles against the Five Nations . . 1666
La Salle comes to Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1666
Treaty of Breda. Acadia restored to the French . . . . . . . . 1667
La Salle supposed to have discovered the Ohio . . . . . . . . 1669-71
Incorporation of the Hudson Bay Company . . . . . . . . . . . . 1670
Count Frontenac's first government . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1672-82
Founding of Fort Frontenac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1673
Joliet and Marquette reach the Mississippi from Lake Michigan . 1673
Treaty of Westminster. New York finally ceded to Great Britain 1674
La Salle descends the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico . . . . 1682
La Salle's expedition to Texas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1684-5
Treaty of Whitehall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1686
Forts in Hudson Bay raided by Iberville . . . . . . . . . . . . 1686
Death of La Salle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1687
Ma.s.sacre of Lachine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1689
Count Frontenac's second government . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1689-98
Port Royal taken by Phipps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1690
Phipps' expedition against Quebec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1690
Peace of Ryswick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1697
First colonization of Louisiana by Iberville . . . . . . . . . 1699
Founding of Detroit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1701
Callieres' Treaty with the Five Nation Indians . . . . . . . . 1701
Five Nation Indians acknowledge supremacy of Great Britain . . 1701
Port Royal taken by Nicholson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1710
Expedition of Walker and Hill against Quebec . . . . . . . . . 1711
Peace of Utrecht. Hudson Bay and Acadia ceded to Great Britain 1713
English fort built at Oswego . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1727
Western discoveries by the Verendryes . . . . . . . . . . . . 1731-43
First siege and capture of Louisbourg . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1745
Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1748
Halifax founded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1749
Fort Duquesne built by the French . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1754
Expulsion of the Acadians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1755
The _Alcide_ and the _Lys_ taken by Boscawen . . . . . . . . . 1755
Braddock defeated on the Monongahela . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1755
Johnson's victory over Dieskau at Lake George . . . . . . . . . 1755
Oswego taken by Montcalm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1756
William s.h.i.+rley recalled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1756
Abortive attempt against Louisbourg by Loudoun and Holborne . . 1757
Fort William Henry taken by Montcalm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1757
