| DATES |
EVENTS |
| 935 |
Bjari Herjolfsson sights mainland
North America. He is possibly the first European to visit North
America. |
| 1007 |
Gudrid
(Born Iceland circa 980) gives birth to a son, Snorri, the first European child
born in North America. |
| 1494 |
The colonial world is
divided between Spain and Portugal by the Treaty of Tordesillas. |
| 1497 |
June 24 - Giovanni
Caboto (John Cabot 1450-1498) a Venetian sailing
for England, claims Newfoundland for England. |
| 1534 |
Jacques Cartier (1491- 1557) sights
Newfoundland on his first voyage to Canada. |
| 1580 |
Births:
Born Marie Rollet,
(1580 ca. - 1649.) Canada’s first farming wife. |
| 1582 |
Sir Humphrey Gilbert visits Newfoundland
and claims the land for England. |
1602
|
Francoise Marie Jacqueline de la Tour is
the first European woman to make a home in
Acadia. |
| 1608 |
July 3 - Samuel de Champlain
founds Quebec the first permanent European
settlement in Canada. |
| 1610 |
December 27-
Married, 40 year old Samuel de Champlain to 12
year old Hélène Boullé |
| 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 first
European couple to settle Newfoundland's shores. Source:
The Beaver February/March 2005 pg. 44-45. |
| 1612 |
March 27 - the
first official record of an European baby born in Newfoundland to Mr.
and Mrs Guy (or Gore). Source : The Beaver
February/March 2005 pg. 44 |
| 1617 |
Marie Rollet. (circ 1580-1649.) 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:
April 17 - Born Marguerite
Bourgeoys (1620 - 1700) founder of the the Congregation de Notre Dame at
Montreal. |
| 1634 |
The
first 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. |
| 1639 |
May 4 - Marie de
L'Incarnation sails from Dieppe harbour in France for New
France. Source Jean Bannerman Leading Ladies
Canada. Belleville, ON: Mika Publishing, 1977 pg 18
August - Marie de L'Incarnation and her party arrive in New
France. Source Jean Bannerman Leading Ladies
Canada. Belleville, ON: Mika Publishing, 1977 pg 18.
Marie de L'Incarnation founds an Ursuline convent in
the settlement of Quebec.
A smallpox epidemic decimates the Huron
peoples reducing their population by 50% |
| 1641 |
The first 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 |
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 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) |
| 1644 |
Jeanne
Mance (1606-1673.) opens Hôtel- Dieu,
the first hospital in Canada.
|
| 1649 |
Births:
March 19 - Born Marie Morin (Baptized (1649-1730),
the first Canadian born woman to become a religious sister. |
| 1653 |
Marguerite Bourgeoys, (1620-1700)
the first school teacher in Montreal, arrives from
France. |
|
|
| 1659 |
July 2, 1659 -
The first community
of uncloistered nuns, Société de Notre Dame de Montréal, in the new world
came
into existence when
Marguerite Bourgeoys
(1620-1700) first 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 |
Births:
February 4 - Baptised Charlotte-Francoise Juchereau de
Saint Denis (1662-1702) A mother of 16 children she was also a notable
business personality in New France. |
| 1662 |
Births:
January 4 - Born Jeanne LeBer Montreal, Quebec (1662-1774) A
religious recluse who story served as background for a 1998 mystery
novel Death du jour. |
| 1663 |
There are 6 bachelors for each girl who reached
puberty in New France.
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 and an 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:
September 22 - baptized Catherine Jérémie de Lamontagne
(1664-1744)midwife and amateur botanist. |
| 1667 |
Canada's first census lists 3215 non native
inhabitants
February 4, 1667 - the first Ball is held in Canada. It is a
celebration of a victory over the Iroquois, Source:
Database Canada by Bob Bowman (Toronto: Holt, 1967) |
| 1668 |
Born Louise Guyon (1668?-
??? An Acadian who was perhaps a spy? for the French. |
| 1669 |
Louis
XlV of France inaugurates the first baby bonus in New France.
|
| 1670 |
May
2 - A royal charter founds the Hudson's Bay Company which
is granted all rights over Rupert's Land including all territory
draining into the Hudson Bay. |
| 1673 |
September 3 - 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:
April 13 - Born Lydia Longley (1674-1758) the first American
Nun. |
| 1676 |
Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620-1764)
established an industrial school, La Porvidence, to teach trades to
young girls.
Source Jean Bannerman Leading Ladies Canada. Belleville, ON: Mika
Publishing, 1977 pg 31 |
| 1678 |
Births:
March 3 - Born Madelaine de Verchères, (1678-1747) youth
heroine of New France. |
| 1683 |
Mrs.
Sargeant, wife of the Governor of the Hudson Bay Company, her
companion, Mrs. Maurice, and a maidservant are the first English women to come to James
Bay. |
| 1685 |
Jeanne Le Ber
(1662-1714)
takes a vow of perpetual seclusion, chastity and poverty. |
| 1686 |
Births:
Born Catherine Quevillon Papineau (1686-1781) pioneer and matriarch of
the famous Papineau Family. |
| 1690 |
January 31, 1690 -
The Duchess D'Aiguillon gives 18,000 francs for the establishment of
a hospital in the Canada( the area now known as Quebec)
Source: Database Canada by Bob Bowman
(Toronto: Holt, 1967) |
| 1692 |
October 22 - Marie
Madelaine Jarret de Verchères defends the family fort with a
handful of seniors and children against the Iroquois, a true youthful
hero of New France. |
| 1694 |
The first
known German immigrant arrives.
Source: The Timechart history of Canada by Meredith Macardle (2004)
Births:
September 17 - Born Eunice Williams (1694-1785) pioneer who
survived capture by unfriendly Natives to become mother of an North
American family dynasty. |
| 1696 |
Births:
April 10 - Born Ester Wheelwright (1696-1780), kidnapped by
Indians, she would be brought to New France where she grew up and
became Mother Superior of the Ursuline Order. |
| 1697 |
Births:
January 18 - Born
Thérése de Couagne (1697-1764), astute
business woman of New France. |
| 1698 |
July
1 - Marguerite
Bourgeoys (1620-1700.)
establishes
the Congregation de Notre Dame at Montreal. |
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