Friday, 17 October 2014

New France & BNA

New France

1608 - Founding of Quebec (the beginnings of New France). You need to know:

  • fille du roi
  • jesuits (missionaries)
  • les habitants
  • fur trade
    • voyageurs
    • coureur des bois
  • deportation of the Acadians
1756-1763 - Seven Years War

  • Battle of the Plains of Abraham
  • Treaty of Paris

BNA

1774:

  • Quebec Act
  • American Revolution (1776)
  • Loyalist Migration (1780s)
  • Constitutional Act (1791)