- 1600s in Canada
"See also:"
16th century in Canada ,
other events of the 1600s,1610s in Canada and theTimeline of Canadian history .----
* c.
1600 : By now, perhaps 250,000 Indians andInuit (Eskimo) inhabit what is nowCanada .*
1600 : KingHenry IV of France grants a fur-tradingmonopoly in theGulf of St. Lawrence to a group of French merchants.*
1602 : Francoise Marie Jacqueline de la Tour is the first European woman to make a home inAcadia .*
1603 -15 -Samuel de Champlain 's (c.1567-1635) voyages in the Northeast lead to contacts with manyAlgonquian andIroquoian tribes. He explores the Gulf of St. Lawrence and theSt. Lawrence River forFrance .*
1603 : A fur trade monopoly charter is granted by France to the sieur de Monts to all the land lying between 40th-46th degrees north latitude. He establishes trade settlements inAcadia (laterNova Scotia ) and atQuebec City on the St. Lawrence.*
1604 -06: Mattieu da Costa travels with the Champlain expedition toPort Royal . He serves as an interpreter between the French and theMicmac Indians of the area.*
1605 -07: The Europeans are welcomed by Mi'kmaq Grand Chief Membertou, who converts to Catholicism, makes a wampum-belt treaty with the Vatican.*
1605 : Samuel de Champlain and the sieur de Poutrincourt foundPort Royal on theBay of Fundy ,Nova Scotia (later to be named Annapolis Royal by the British), the first permanent French settlement in North America.*
1607 : English colonists foundJamestown, Virginia under John Smith, leading to extensive contact with the tribes of the Powhatan Confederacy.*
1608 : Champlain allies himself with the Algonquians and with theHuron s, who are amenable tomissionary activities and acts as the principal suppliers of furs. This alliance, however, antagonizes the Iroquoian Confederacy, traditional rivals of the Huron and suppliers of furs to the Dutch inNew Amsterdam .*
July 3 ,1608 :Quebec City is established as a fur post by Champlain and French colonists, creating in effect the first permanent European settlement.*
1609 : The settlement of Quebec owes much to Samuel de Champlain, an explorer hired by the sieur de Monts, who became the foremost champion of French colonization.*
1609 : Champlain supports theAlgonquins against theIroquois atLake Champlain . He fires on the Iroquois, setting a pattern of Indian relationships.
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.