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It opened the western part of Upper Canada to settlement by building routes such as the Huron Road and the Toronto–Sydenham Road during the 1830s and 1840s. [6] As these areas also filled, the government came under pressure to open up the unforgiving terrain of the Canadian Shield to settlement and sought to establish a network of east–west ...
So many Loyalists arrived on the shores of the St. John River that a separate colony—New Brunswick—was created in 1784; [102] followed in 1791 by the division of Quebec into the largely French-speaking Lower Canada (French Canada) along the St. Lawrence River and the Gaspé Peninsula and an anglophone Loyalist Upper Canada, with its capital ...
Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver would experience sustained growth but not enough to make them the metropolis. Vancouver: In 1921, Vancouver had a population of 232,000. The opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 solidified Vancouver's place as Canada's largest western city and the third largest in the country, a place that it holds to this ...
In 1600, a trading post was established at Tadoussac, but only five of the sixteen settlers survived the winter and returned home that summer. [27] In 1604, the first year-round permanent settlement was founded by Samuel de Champlain at Île-Saint-Croix on Baie Française ( Bay of Fundy ), which was moved to Port-Royal in 1605. [ 28 ]
Wood-frame building erected by settlers from New England; one of the oldest surviving buildings in English-speaking Canada, and a good example of a New England–style colonial meeting house: Simeon Perkins House, 1767 1767: Liverpool, Nova Scotia: Jeremiah Calkin House: 1768 [103] 1768 [103] Grand Pre: Although largely intact, it was relocated ...
1873 – John Glenn was the first documented European settler in the Calgary area. [1] 1875 – Originally named Fort Brisebois, after NWMP officer Éphrem-A. Brisebois, it was renamed Fort Calgary by Colonel James Macleod. 1877 – Treaty 7 is signed, and title to the Fort Calgary area is ceded to the Crown. 1882 - First sawmill on the Bow ...
The Park Royal Shopping Centre, in West Vancouver, became the first in the city in 1950 and Empire Stadium, was built to host the 1954 British Empire Games. Vancouver became the western anchor of the new CBC national television network in 1958 and the western hub of the newly completed Trans-Canada Highway in 1962.
In 1953–1955, during the Cold War, Canada sent Inuit families to the far north in the High Arctic relocation, partly to establish territoriality. [ 18 ] In 1967, the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, the Honourable Arthur Laing , announced that Yellowknife would be the capital of the Northwest Territories.