| DATES |
EVENTS |
| 935 |
935 -
Bjari Herjolfsson sights mainland
North America. He is possibly the 1st European to visit North
America |
| 1007 |
1007 - Gudrid
(Born Iceland circa 980) gives birth to a son, Snorri,
the first European child born in North America |
| 1494 |
1494 -
The colonial world is
divided between Spain and Portugal by the Treaty of Tordesillas |
| 1497 |
June 24, 1497
-
Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot 1450-1498)
a Venetian sailing for England, claims Newfoundland for England |
| 1534 |
1534 -
Jacques Cartier (1491- 1557)
sights Newfoundland on his first voyage to Canada. |
| 1580 |
Births
1580:
1580 - Born Marie Rollet
(1580 ca.-1649.) Canada’s 1st farming wife |
| 1582 |
1582 -
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
(Died 1583) visits Newfoundland & claims the land for England |
| 1602 |
1602 - Francoise Marie Jacqueline de la Tour
is
the 1st European woman to make a home in
Acadia |
| 1606 |
Births 1606:
1606 - Born Guillemette
Couillard de Lespinay (1606-1684) daughter of Louis Hébert
(1575?-1627), pioneer of New France |
| 1608 |
July 3, 1608 -
Samuel de
Champlain (d1635) founds Quebec the 1st permanent European settlement in
Canada |
| 1610 |
December 27, 1610 -
Married, 40 year old Samuel de Champlain
(d1635) to 12
year old Hélène Boullé dite de Saint-Augustin
(1598-1654) |
| 1611 |
1611 - Sheila NaGiera
(The Irish Princess ) and her husband, Gilbert Pike, legendary
pioneers of Newfoundland, settled as planters and small business
people on Carbonnear Island where they are considered the 1st
European couple to settle Newfoundland's shores.
Source:
The Beaver February/March 2005 pg. 44-45. |
| 1612/3 |
March 27, 1612 or
1613 - the 1st official record of an European baby born in
Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Guy (or Gore)
Source : The Beaver
February/March 2005 pg. 44 |
| 1617 |
1617 - Marie Rollet. (ca1580-1649.) arrives in New France with her husband
and young children. Her husband would become known as Canada’s first
farmer. He is also an apothecary and Marie befriends the local
natives to whom her husband administers. She is Canada’s first farmer’s
wife. Their farm was on Cape Diamond which is
located in the heart of the modern city of Quebec. She may also be considered
Canada’s first teacher as records show
she enjoyed teaching the local native population |
| 1620 |
Births 1620:
1620? - Born Hélène Desportes - Hébert - Morin
(1620?- 1675) may have been the first white child born in New France
April 17, 1620 - Born Marguerite
Bourgeoys (1620 - 1700),
founder of the the Congregation de Notre Dame at Montreal |
| 1621 |
August 26, 1621 -
The first marriage to take place in New France is Guillemette
Hebert (1606?-1684), daughter of Louis Hebert (1575-1627)
and Marie Rollet (1580-1649) to Guillaume Couillard
(1591?-1663)
October 21, 1621 - The first
baptism is performed in New France, Eustache, the son of Abraham
Martin
Births 1621:
July 18, 1621 - Born Francoise-Marie de la Tour (1621-1645)
heroine of New Brunswick |
| 1626 |
Births 1626:
1626 -
Born Adrienne Du Vivier-Lecavelier (1626-1706) pioneer
of New France |
| 1634 |
1634 -
The 1st of the Filles du Roi, young French women were
recruited by religious communities and agents of the One Hundred
Associates with the intent of marrying them to men in the colony of
New France
arrive in New France |
| 1638 |
Births 1638:
January 27, 1638 - Born Marie-Francoise Hebert (1638-1716)
pioneer of New France |
| 1639 |
May 4, 1639 - Marie de
L'Incarnation (1599-1672) sails from Dieppe harbour in France
for New France Source Jean
Bannerman Leading Ladies Canada. Belleville, ON:
Mika Publishing, 1977 pg 18
August 1639
-
Marie de L'Incarnation
(1599-1672) and her party
arrive in New France Source Jean Bannerman
Leading Ladies Canada. Belleville, ON:
Mika Publishing, 1977 pg 18.
1639 - Marie de L'Incarnation
(1599-1672)
founds an Ursuline convent in the settlement
of Quebec
1639 -
A smallpox epidemic decimates the Huron
peoples reducing their population by 50% |
| 1641 |
1641 - The 1st mother-house of the Ursuline sisters in Canada is completed
in New France. Source Jean
Bannerman Leading Ladies Canada. Belleville, ON: Mika Publishing, 1977
pg 23 |
| 1642 |
January 16, 1642 -
French settlers are given land in Acadia, Nova Scotia
Source: Bob Bowman, Dateline:Canada, Toronto: Holt,
Rinehart and Winston of Canada, 1973.
May 18,
1642
- Montreal is established
by Sieur de Maisonneuve. Jeanne Mance
(1606-1673) arrived with the founding party of
the settlement Source Jean Bannerman
Leading Ladies Canada. Belleville, ON: Mika Publishing, 1977 pg
26 |
| 1643 |
January 6, 1643 -
Jeanne Mance
(1606-1673) and Mme de la Peltrie, founders of
a hospital and Ursuline Convent, are among a party which climbed the
Mountain in Montreal, celebrating Epiphany by planting a wooden
cross on top of the Mountain Source: Database Canada by Bob
Bowman (Toronto, Holt, 1967)
1643 - The population of
Montreal, New France grows to 70 people |
| 1644 |
1644 - Jeanne
Mance (1606-1673.)
opens Hôtel- Dieu,
the 1st hospital in Canada |
| 1645 |
Births 1645:
1645 - Born Marie Catherine de Baillon-Miville (1645-1688) fille
de Roi
Deaths 1645:
1645- Died Francoise-Marie de la Tour (1621-1645) heroine of New
Brunswick |
| 1646 |
Births 1646:
1646 - Born Jeanne Chartier (1646- 1708),
Fille du Roi, pioneer of New France |
| 1649 |
Births
1649:
March 19, 1649 - Born Marie Morin (Baptized
(1649-1730) 1st Canadian born woman to become a religious sister |
| 1650 |
Births 1650:
May 1, 1650 - Born Jeanne-Francoise Juchereau De La Ferté
(1650-1723) Mother Saint-Ignace. |
| 1653 |
1653 - Marguerite Bourgeoys
(1620-1700),
the 1st school teacher in Montreal, arrives from
France. |
| 1657 |
Births 1657:
February 25, 1657 - Born Agathe de Repentigny
(1657-1748) pioneer businesswoman & entrepreneur of New France
|
| 1659 |
July 2, 1659 -
The1st community
of uncloistered nuns, Société de Notre Dame de Montréal, in the new world
came
into existence when
Marguerite Bourgeoys'
(1620-1700), 1st companions joined
her on the ship carrying the last of the great recruitments
undertaken by the Société de Notre-Dame de Montreal
Source: Patricia Simpson. Marguerite
Bourgeoys and Montreal 1640-1665. (Montreal : McGill Queen's
University Press, 1997) |
| 1660 |
July 21, 1660
-
Canada’s 1st census puts the population at 3,418
Births
1660:
February 4, 1660 - Baptised Charlotte-Francoise Juchereau de
Saint Denis (1662-1702) mother of 16 children, also a notable business
personality in New France |
| 1662 |
Births
1662:
January 4, 1662 - Born Jeanne LeBer
(1662-1774) Montreal, Quebec, a
religious recluse who story served as background for a 1998 mystery
novel Death du Jour |
| 1663 |
1663 - The Census of
New France recorded nine single women 20-35 years of age and 1,293
single men
1663 -
The Filles du Roi - Daughters of the King - begin to
arrive in New France. It was a project
sponsored by the King of France himself to bring young unmarried
women to the colony to encourage marriage & increase in population.
Their transportation and settlement expenses, as well as the dowry
for some of them, were assumed by the royal treasury |
| 1664 |
Births
1664:
September 22 , 1664 -
baptized Catherine Jérémie de Lamontagne
(1664-1744), midwife and amateur botanist. |
| 1667 |
1667 -
Canada's 1st census lists 3215 non native
inhabitants
February 4, 1667 -
The 1st Ball is held in Canada
by Louis Theadore. It
is a celebration of a victory over the Iroquois
Source:
Database Canada by Bob Bowman (Toronto: Holt, 1967)
Births 1667:
1667 - Born Elizabeth Isabelle Couc-Montour (1667-1750)
pioneer |
| 1668 |
Births 1668:
1668 - Born Louise Guyon (1668?- )
an Acadian who was perhaps a spy? for the French |
| 1669 |
1669 - Louis
XlV of France inaugurates the 1st baby bonus in New France |
| 1670 |
May
2, 1670 - A royal charter founds the Hudson's Bay Company
grants all rights over Rupert's Land including all
territory draining into the Hudson Bay
July 31, 1670 - 120 Fille du Roi arrive in Quebec from
Port du Rochelle, France |
| 1673 |
September 3, 1673
-
The last group of the Filles du Roi arrive in New France, ending
the successful ten year royal project to help populate the colony |
| 1674 |
Births 1674:
April 13, 1674 - Born Lydia Longley (1674-1758) 1st American
Nun |
| 1675 |
Deaths 1675:
June 24, 1675 - Died Hélène Desportes - Hébert
- Morin (1620?- 1675) may have been the first white child born in
New France |
| 1676 |
1676 -
Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620-1764)
established an industrial school, La Providence, to teach trades to
young girls
Source Jean Bannerman Leading Ladies Canada. Belleville, ON: Mika
Publishing, 1977 pg 31 |
| 1678 |
Births
1678:
March 3, 1678 - Born Madelaine de Verchères, (1678-1747)
youth heroine of New France |
| 1683 |
1683 - Mrs.
Sargeant, wife of the Governor of the Hudson Bay Company, her
companion, Mrs. Maurice, and a maidservant are the
1st English
women to come to James Bay |
| 1684 |
Deaths 1684:
October 20, 1684- Died
Guillemette Couillard de Lespinay (1606-1684) daughter of Louis
Hébert (1575?-1627), pioneer of New France |
| 1685 |
1685 - Jeanne Le Ber
(1662-1714)
takes a vow of perpetual seclusion, chastity & poverty. The
religious recluse who story served as background for a 1998 mystery
novel Death du Jour
|
| 1686 |
Births
1686:
March 14, 1686 - Born Catherine Quevillon
Papineau (1686-1781) pioneer & matriarch of the famous Papineau
family |
| 1688 |
Deaths 1688:
January 27, 1688 - Died Marie
Catherine de Baillon-Miville (1645-1688) fille de Roi
|
| 1690 |
|
| 1691 |
|
| 1692 |
October 22, 1692 - Marie
Madelaine Jarret de Verchères
(1678-1747)
defends the family fort with a handful of seniors and children
against the Iroquois, a true youthful hero of New France
Source:
André Vachon, “JARRET DE VERCHÈRES, MARIE-MADELEINE,”
in
Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 3, University of
Toronto/Université Laval, 2003– (accessed July 27, 2014)
|
| 1693 |
|
| 1694 |
1694
- The 1st known German immigrant arrives
Source: The Timechart history of Canada by Meredith Macardle (2004)
Births 1694:
September 17, 1694 -
Born Eunice Williams (1694-1785)
pioneer who survived capture by unfriendly Natives to become mother
of an North American family dynasty |
| 1696 |
Births
1696:
April 10, 1696 - Born Ester Wheelwright
(1696-1780) kidnapped by Indians, she would be brought to New France
where she grew up &
became Mother Superior of the Ursuline Order |
| 1697 |
Births
1697:
January 18, 1697 - Born
Thérése de Couagne (1697-1764) astute business woman of New France
July 31,1697 - Born Marie-Charlotte de Ramezay (1697-1767)
religious sister & hospital administrator |
| 1698 |
July
1, 1698 - Marguerite
Bourgeoys
(1620-1700)
establishes the Congregation de Notre Dame at Montreal
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