Canadian Society and History: History

In The History of Canada
Samuel de Champlain and a handful of settlers returned to Quebec in 1633 and reestablished a colony that struggled to survive into the 1660s.

In The Columbia Encyclopedia
Corporation chartered (1670) by Charles II of England for the purpose of trade and settlement in the Hudson Bay region of North America and for exploration toward the discovery of the Northwest Passage to Asia.

In Handy Answer: Native American Almanac: More Than 50,000 Years of the Cultures and Histories of Indigenous Peoples
Throughout the colonial period and well into the nineteenth century, the fur trade was one of the principal business enterprises in North America.

In The History of Canada
Momentous changes occurred for the peoples of British North America from the post-Conquest period until the mid-nineteenth century.

The last and largest North American conflict between Britain and France and their respective Native American allies.

Fur-trading organization in North America in the late 18th and early 19th cent.; it was composed of Montreal trading firms and fur traders.

The Treaty of Paris of 1763 concluded the Seven Years’ War (1754–1763; known in North America as the French and Indian War).

Privately owned railway company that operates one of the two transcontinental systems in Canada. The Canadian Pacific (CP) pioneered rail travel in Canada and played a major role in the unification of the country.

In Chambers Dictionary of World History
Canadian revolt. The métis of the Saskatchewan, like those of Red River, had suffered from the encroachments of English-speaking settlers without any governmental assurances or safeguards.

The Anglo-American War (1812–1815), commonly known as the War of 1812, was triggered by a long series of outstanding grievances between Britain and the United States, which were largely connected with the former's contemporaneous war against Napoleonic France.

In The Columbia Encyclopedia
Also called the Constitutional Act of 1982, which made Canada a fully sovereign state.

Corporation created by the Canadian government in 1918 to run an extensive nationalized railway system.

Image from: Demonstration in Mexico against the NAFTA... in Mexico: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Culture and History
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was ratified in 1994, linking Canada, Mexico, and the United States under a regime of liberalized trilateral commerce that harmonized procedures for defining rules of origin, expedited customs clearance for cross-border trade, and provided for a wide variety of institutional reforms to safeguard environmental interests and the rights of workers.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a military alliance of twenty-six countries from Europe and North America that is based on the 1949 North Atlantic Treaty.

Provincial political party committed to the independence of Quebec.