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Canada: In 1875, permanent European settlement started in the area centred around the town of Battleford, and located on the south side of the North Saskatchewan River. 1911: The Pas: Manitoba: Canada: Expanded from Fort Paskoyac. 1914: Anchorage: Alaska: United States 1915: Prince George: British Columbia: Canada: Expanded from Fort George ...
Hélène Desportes is considered the first child with European ancestry to be born in New France. She was born circa 1620, to Pierre Desportes (born Lisieux, Normandie, France) and Françoise Langlois. [21] The first permanent European settlements in Canada were at Port Royal in 1605 and Quebec City in 1608 as fur trading posts.
1526: Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón briefly establishes the failed settlement of San Miguel de Gualdape in South Carolina, the first site of enslavement of Africans in North America and of the first slave rebellion. 1527: Fishermen are using the harbor at St. John's, Newfoundland and other places on the coast.
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] In 1608, Samuel de Champlain founded the city of Québec with 28 men of whom 20 died from lack of food and from scurvy the first winter.
The St. Lawrence Seaway, a joint project between Canada and the United States, is officially opened. [116] 1960 1 July First Nations people are granted the right to vote in federal elections without having to give up their status and treaty rights. [117] 1965 15 February Canada adopts the maple leaf for the national flag. [118] 1967 27 April
Specifically the Mounties were to assert Canadian sovereignty to prevent possible American encroachments into the area. [134] The Mounties' first large-scale mission was to suppress the second independence movement by Manitoba's Métis, a mixed-blood people of joint First Nations and European descent, who originated in the mid-17th century. [135]
Canada inherited territorial disputes with the United States over Machias Seal Island and North Rock, which remain disputed up to the present. [14] Disputes: July 15, 1870 The United Kingdom transferred most of its remaining land in North America to Canada, with the North-Western Territory and Rupert's Land becoming the North-West Territories.
Further down the coast in Florida, the Spanish founded in 1565 by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, San Agustín (St. Augustine) [11] became the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in any State of the United States. This is the second oldest settlement, following only San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the current territory and possessions of ...