Canada Day Coffee
Here is a brief timeline of the more salient events in Canadian History:
- 1000 - Vikings travelled and settled in Canada (give or take a year or so).
- 1497 - John Cabot discovers Canada, landing on the coast of Newfoundland.
- 1534 - Jacques Cartier discovers the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River.
- 1605 - Samuel de Champlain establishes the first New France Colony at Port Royal.
- 1670 - The Hudson's Bay Company established.
- 1672 - New France expansion into Canada under Louis de Frontenac.
- 1759 - Battle on the Plains of Abraham.
- 1763 - French colonies in North America were passed to the British Crown.
- 1791 - Constitutional Act establishes Upper and Lower Canada.
- 1812 - Upper Canada repels American invasion.
- 1821 - North West Company established.
- 1867 - Dominion of Canada was formed with Ontario (Upper Canada), Quebec (Lower Canada), New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
- 1873 - North-West Mounted Police (Mounties) established.
- 1885 - Canadian Pacific Railway Completed.
- 1898 - Klondike Gold Rush.
- 1899 - Boer War.
- 1914-1918 - World War 1.
- 1939 - Great Depression.
- 1939-1945 - World War 2.
- 1964 - Tim Hortons coffee chain founded.
- 1982 - Canadian constitution adopted.
- 1995 - Tim Hortons merged with Wendy's International, most likely in retaliation for the war of 1812.
- 2006 - Tim Hortons separates from Wendy's.
- 2009 - Canada celebrates 142 years!!!
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