Jan 17, 2012 16:32:53 GMT -5 |
Post by matthew on Jan 17, 2012 16:32:53 GMT -5
And without further ado... my super lazy Canada app
Nickname/Alias: Matty, Matt, "America?", Canadia, Who?
Gender: Male
Character Type: Country
Country or Country of Origin: Technically Vinland, but… Canada
Canon or Original: Canon
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Hair: Wheat-blonde and down to just below his chin
Height and Weight:6'6'', roughly one-hundred-ninety/two-hundred pounds. Yes. I blatantly disregard canon height. Canada's the second largest country on earth. He's going to be freaking tall.
Other Distinguishing Features: Distinguishing? Canada? He's practically invisible, there's not much to distinguish through all of that!
I kid. Probable Montreal, which sticks out from the centre of his forehead and hangs down in a curly-loop.
Overall Appearance: The first thing you're likely to notice about Matthew - if you are to notice him at all - is his height. Matthew stands at six-six, in reflection of his large land mass, being that he's the second largest country on Earth(second largest, I'll leave that to the audience to figure out what else that might mean), however, he's got a relatively small population so he doesn't quite fill out his frame. Actually, he's more awkwardly gangly then anything else, still in his late teenage years - he's somewhere between nineteen and twenty in human years, he doesn't really keep track - Matthew hasn't really grown into himself yet. That isn't to say he's not strong of course, with all his oil and general landmass he was born with a strength similar (though not quite so ridiculously notable) as his brother's, which he has no problem showing on the ice or in the few wars he's been unfortunate enough to be involved in. Actually, his nose shows evidence of as much and bears a few bumps along it from where it's been broken - more on the ice then in actual combat, as Matthew plays hockey not only to win, but to let out stress that he keeps pent up over time, so he can get rather, ahem, intense let's just say.
Perhaps next most notable would be his ever-present hoodie. And I really do mean ever-present. Matthew is so used to being forgotten that he's developed an irrational fear that he'll forget himself if he doesn't have a reminder that he's Canada on him at all times, so he gets hyper paranoid about taking that hoodie off. So it's pretty rare to see him out of it, save for when he's on duty as a Mountie, and during war time. He's not too scared up, though he does still have a burn scar from when his capital was burned down in 1812 (which he paid back in kind, thank you very much), and a rather nasty one from Halifax, but other than that they're only light things because he's fairly young and hasn't been involved in too too many combat situations, comparatively.
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★ Tim Hortons
★ Pancakes (well, rather, the syrup that goes on them)
★ Hockey
★ His brother (sometimes)
★ His papa (all the time)
★ good beer, on occasion
★ His bear, even if he can't remember his name
★ Those rare times when people actually notice him
★ A special plant he grows~~
★ A certain latina woman just south of his brother's border. <3
Dislikes:
✖ That Aunt Jemima crap his brother makes
✖ Baseball - no blood? Not a sport.
✖ the fur trade - he lost one of his best friends that way, and even though it's what made him what he is today, he still resents what it cost him.
✖ Being forgotten - he's an important country thank you very much!
✖ Being accused of cheating
✖ Being called forgetful, a pot head, or a slacker. Yes, sometimes he can be a bit lazy and he does enjoy the finer bits he grows, but that's not all he does, not by a long shot
Strengths:
+ Physical strength - he does have it, even if it's not quite so impressive as his brother's
+ He's damn near invisible. You think that isn't useful?
+ He consumes enough syrup in one day to make most people diabetic, but it seems he has a cast-iron stomach when it comes to sugar
+ He's part French - this boy can cook.
Weaknesses:
- He's ignored so regularly he's pretty socially awkward sometimes.
- He's not very confident in himself, largely because a big part of him wants to break off, it really shakes his self-confidence.
- He has some really bad anger issues, if you push him to the point of snapping he can't always stop himself.
- Despite his size he's really easy to overlook, and sometimes (read: often) he gets passed over completely.
Fears:
☣ That he'll forget himself, and then there'll be no one who knows what he represents.
☣ That Quebec really will manage to leave (Quebec, by the way, is his reflection. And will someday get his own personality section in here when I'm not feeling lazy)
☣ That the few people who do still notice him will realise that he's not good enough for him and leave, forgetting him as well.
☣ Mostly being alone and forgotten if you haven't gotten that from the above. He's got a lot of self-doubt problems, as will be gone into detail later.
Secrets:
♦ Quebec is his reflection, and was originally Mathieu Bonnefois, but is now a subset personality of Matthew Williams. Sometimes he gets noisy when he's trying to secede and has even driven Matthew to self-harm in the past trying to cut himself free, though nothing as bad as, say, America's civil war.
♦ Matthew's polar bear is actually Yukon Territory. If Yukon ever became a Provence Kumajirou would die. Matthew can't remember his name because when he was a boy he only needed to call him 'Bear', and Kuma can't remember Matthew's because he's gone through so many name changes and country titles since they first found one another.
♦ He does grow pot. He likes it. Lars introduced him to it, and it keeps him calm.
♦ He can be just as obnoxious and loud as his brother, he's just a lot more mellow these days thanks to a mixture of what he tokes up on and because he knows the world couldn't handle two Alfred's.
♦ He keeps all of the tulips Holland sends him. But he has no idea what to do with them so they just sit in the upstairs of his house, they have their own floor now.
Any Quirks/Habits: Not really. He talks to himself?
Overall Personality: Matthew seems to be quite a quiet person, but that's largely just because no one bothers to take the time to listen to him - if someone's willing to listen he can just go on and on for ages, it's just that no one bothers to listen when he does so he's seen as a very quiet nation. On the contrary, he has just as much to say as his brother does, but no opportunity. That being said, he's still very awkward around people, and can come off as very shy, when in fact he's just not used to talking so much or being paid that much attention to, so he sometimes forgets that he's supposed to respond.
Matthew isn't a very socially conscious lad, or a very conscious lad period, he tends to space out a lot and sometimes gets lost mid-sentence if he's not interested in what you're saying. It's not that he's ignoring you, it's just that he has a very short attention span, and because very few people notice him long enough to scold him for this, he's never tried to remedy that.
HE is related to America - and it does show sometimes. He can be just as stubborn, and sometimes just as loud - it's just rare to see him so blatantly so. He can also be just a s violently badarse during wartime, and since he's usually caught up in it longer might even arguably be more experienced in such. He certainly isn't one to shirk from something physical, despite how he might seem very non-confrontational - he makes a point to always mind his manners, and in general is quite polite, but when it comes down to it he has no problem throwing down. Especially against his brother who he regularly gets annoyed with and has no problem chewing out when necessary. Though his preferred mode of settling things is a game - of hockey, naturally, one-on-one, first to ten takes the cake - largely because he can get away with throwing his weight around and letting his aggression out without being seen as a violent bastard, which isn't exactly the sort of image he wants to project. Largely because he's very eager to please anyone and everyone he meets (except, perhaps, the Asians that keep invading his house - leave some room for his people too, please! - and occasionally England, who he does have some lasting resentment towards) - you would too if the world forgot you. It tends to make one a bit desperate for attention, sometimes of any sort, though Matthew's always been the sort to hunger for affection, largely thanks to his mid-childhood spent being passed around form group to group, much like a child in foster character will often either go to destructive measures for attention or try their hardest to do everything absolutely perfectly. So has Matthew become the sort to try to please anyone he's around in the hopes that they won't abandon him too.
TL;DR version:
He's a sweetheart who's very polite as a general rule, tries to get along with everyone, and sometimes has flashes of blinding anger. Also he has some self esteem problems. Ayup.
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Pre 1000 - Canada inhabited by the Inuit people
1000 - The Vikings travelled and settled in Canada
1000 - 1450 - Sometime in here, a young blonde-haired boy is born. He grows into a toddler but after that doesn't age.
1450 - the Iroquois form the Great League of Peace and Power.
1492 - Christopher Columbus (1451–1506), backed by Spain, reaches San Salvador Island (Guanahani to the natives), "discovering the New World" and encountering Arawak and Taíno people. Thinking he is in India, he calls them Indians.
1494 - Treaty of Tordesillas divides the colonial world between Spain and Portugal.
1496 - March 5: King Henry VII of England granted John Cabot the right to 'seek islands and countries of the heathen towards the west, east, and north' sailing under the English flag
1497 - May 2: John Cabot embarked on his ship, The Matthew, to explore the lands across the Atlantic, hoping to find a north west passage to the Indies and China. John Cabot and his son Sebastian were the first Europeans to discover Canada, landing on the coast of Newfoundland.
1498 - English explorer John Cabot, making a second voyage to North America (looking for Northwest Passage to India), travels the coast of Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and trades furs with Micmacs.
c. 1500: European diseases begin killing native North Americans, who have no immunity to them.
1521-26: João Álvares Fagundes establishes the first European colony in North America on Cape Breton Island. It later fails.
1523-24: Giovanni da Verrazzano, sailing for France, explores the Atlantic coast, encountering Wampanoag, Narragansett, and Delaware Indians.
c. 1530-50: The French explorer Jacques Cartier sails up the St. Lawrence River, claiming the land for France. His failure to find a northwest passage - or gold, as the Spanish had in Peru - discourages further exploration. France was also too preoccupied with domestic religious wars to make any substantial commitment. The discovery of Canada was important, however, to English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese fishing fleets, all of which regularly fish the Grand Banks off the coast of Newfoundland.
1534-41: Jacques Cartier of France explores the St. Lawrence River area in three voyages, making contact with Iroquoian speaking tribes.
1534: French explorer Jacques Cartier visits the Strait of Belle Isle (Newfoundland), enters and charts Gulf of St. Lawrence River, landing in Gaspé, July 14. His ship becomes icebound, men suffering from scurvy aided by Iroquoian native, who feed them vitamin C in boiled spruce. He takes two Iroquoians with him back to France.
1535: Cartier sails up the St. Lawrence River and reaches the St. Lawrence Iroquoian villages of Stadacona and Hochelaga (now Quebec City and Montreal).
1541: Jacques Cartier and Sieur de Roberval attempt to colonize Quebec, founding the first French settlement in America, Charlesbourg-Royal, at the mouth of the Cap Rouge River.
1542: Charlesbourg-Royal is abandoned. Cartier meets the sieur de Roberval, who was officially part of the same expedition, in Newfoundland.
1576-78: Martin Frobisher, seeking a Northwest Passage to the Pacific, encounters various Eskimo groups.
1583: Sir Humphrey Gilbert, brother-in-law of Sir Walter Raleigh, claims Newfoundland as England's first overseas colony.
1603 - March 15: Samuel de Champlain set sail for Quebec from Honfleur, France following in the path of Jacques Cartier to the St Lawrence River and Tadoussac
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 in Acadia (later Nova Scotia) and at Quebec City on the St. Lawrence.
1604-06: Mattieu da Costa travels with the Champlain expedition to Port Royal. He serves as an interpreter between the French and the Micmac 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 establishes the first successful New France Colony at Port Royal, Mathieu given to one Francois Bonnefois
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 the Algonquins against the Iroquois at Lake Champlain. He fires on the Iroquois, setting a pattern of Indian relationships.
1610: Henry Hudson, in service of the Netherlands, explores the river named for him. Hudson explores Hudson Bay in spite of a mutinous crew. Manhattan Indians attack his ship. Mahican people make peaceful contact, and a lucrative fur trade begins.
1610: Etienne Brule lives among Huron and is first European to see Lakes Ontario, Huron and Superior.
1611: Champlain builds fur post at Montreal.
1612: Champlain is named Governor of New France.
1613: In response to gunfire aimed at them, the Beothuk of Newfoundland kill 37 French fisherman. The French retaliate by arming the Micmac, traditional enemies of the Beothuk, and offering bounties for scalps. The Beothuk are soon virtually exterminated.
1613: Port Royal sacked by Samuel Argall and his pirates from Virginia.
1613: St. John's, Newfoundland is founded.
1614: Franciscan Recollet friars arrive to convert the Indians.
1615: French Roman Catholic missionaries arrive in Canada.
1615: Champlain attacks Onondaga villages with the help of a Huron war party, this turning the Iroquois League against the French.
1616-20: Smallpox epidemic strikes New England tribes between Narragansett Bay and the Penobscot River.
1617: Louis Hebert, an apothecary who had stayed at Port Royal twice, brings his wife and children to Quebec, thus becoming the first true habitant (permanent settler supporting his family from the soil).
1621: Dutch West India Company chartered, expands up the Hudson and Delaware rivers.
1621: James I of England (VI of Scotland) grants Acadia to Sir William Alexander who renames it New Scotland (Nova Scotia)
1625: the Baronet of Nova Scotia is founded
1625: French settlements in the West Indies begin, exporting sugar and tobacco, and emigration to Canada is encouraged among traders and fishermen.
1625: The Franciscan friars are replaced by the heroic priests of the richer, better-organized Society of Jesus. Jesuits begin missionary work among the Indians in the Quebec area. Jean de Brébeuf founds missions in Huronia, near Georgian Bay.
1626: Peter Minuit, governor of New Netherland, buys Manhattan Island for 60 guilders worth of trade goods from the Canarsie Indians. (Dutch later have to pay Manhattan Indians, actual occupants of the island.) Dutch policy is land payments to Indians, neutrality in Indian conflicts relating to French-English struggle.
1627: Cardinal Richelieu, chief adviser to Louis XIII, organizes a joint-stock company, the Company of One Hundred Associates (also known as the Company of New France), to establish a French Empire in North America. It is given a fur monopoly and title to all lands claimed by New France (April 29). In exchange, they are to establish a French colony of 4000 by 1643, which they fail to do.
1628: Olivier Le Jeune, an 8-year-old boy from Madagascar, arrives in Quebec. He is the first recorded slave purchase in New France. Le Jeune is probably the first person of African origin to live most of his life in Canada.
July 19, 1629: Quebec City is captured by an English fleet led by the adventurer David Kirke.
1631: Charles de la Tour builds Fort La Tour (also known as Fort Saint Marie) at the mouth of the Saint John River.
1632: British lose control of Acadia through the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, which returns Quebec to France.
1632: Isaac de Razilly sails from France with 300 people hoping to establish a permanent French settlement in Acadia.
1632: Starting this year, Dutch colonists begin to demand more farmlands.
1633–: English and French settlers enlist mainland Indians, mostly Micmac to massacre Beothuk people of Newfoundland, who are now extinct. "Red" Indian apparently derives from these people, who painted their bodies with red ochre. Nancy Shawanahdit, the last Beothuk, died in 1829. Little is known of their customs, language, religion. Beothuk was not likely their tribal self-name.
1633–35: New smallpox outbreaks among Indians of New England, New France, and New Netherland.
1633: David Kirke is knighted.
1634: the first of the Filles du Roi, young French women who 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.
1634–40: The Huron nation is reduced by half from European diseases (smallpox epidemic, 1639).
1634 Marie de L'Incarnation founds an Ursuline convent in the settlement of Quebec
1634: The trade settlement at Trois-Rivières is founded.
c. 1635: English fishing interests secure a virtual prohibition on efforts to colonize Newfoundland.
1636–37: Pequot War in New England against the English. (Niantics, Narragansetts later joined). Capt. John Mason burnt sleeping Pequot village at Mystic River, pinning the people inside the flames by gunfire, killing more than 600 people in a surprise attack. Mohawks behead fleeing Pequot leaders to prove they were not involved.
1636: French crown grants Gulf of Maine and Bay of Fundy to d'Aulnay; La Tour gets Nova Scotia peninsula.
1637: David Kirke is named first governor of Newfoundland.
1639: Ursuline nuns come to North America, who educate girls.
1639: Smallpox epidemic decimates Huron people; population reduced by 50%.
1639: Dutch governor-general William Kieft adopts policy of exterminating the hostile Indians and taxing the rest. Dutch soldiers aid Mohawk allies to carry out Pavonia massacre, where Dutch soldiers played kickball with the heads of the women and children refugees they had killed.
1639: The Jesuit mission of Sainte-Marie among the Hurons is established at Wendake.
c. 1640: Beavers and otters nearly exterminated in Iroquois country. To expand territory, Iroquois launch decades-long "Beaver Wars" against Huron, Algonquin and Themselves
1640: Lake Erie discovered.
May 17, 1642: The trade settlement at Montreal is founded by the Sieur de Maisonneuve.
January 5, 1643: The first Mount Royal Cross erected
1644: Second Powhatan Confederacy uprising against Jamestown, Virginia; its leader, Opechancanough, dies in captivity.
1644 Jeanne Mance (Baptized Langres, France November 12, 1606 Died June 18, 1673) opens Hotel-Dieu, the first hospital in North America.
1645-63: Under the proprietorship of Richelieu's company's colonial agent, the Community of Habitants, the new French colony takes shape along the St. Lawrence.
1648-49: After the Iroquois brutally ravage Huron country and disperse the Huron nation north of the St. Lawrence, they turn against New France itself.
1649-64: the Beaver Wars: Encouraged by the English, and the need for more beaver for trade (their own area being hunted out), Haudenosee (Iroquois) make war on Hurons (1649), Tobaccos (1649), Neutrals (1650–51), Erie (1653–56), Ottawa (1660), Illinois and Miami (1680–84), and members of the Mahican confederation. English, pleased with this, agree to 2-Row Wampum Peace treaty, 1680.
1649: Attacks by the Iroquois disperse the Huron; disrupts fur trade over the next fifteen years.
1649: The Jesuit father Jean de Brébeuf is martyred during Iroquois raids on the Hurons at St-Ignace (March 16).
1649: The Jesuit missionaries at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons abandon the mission, burning it to the ground and taking refuge at Christian Island (June 16)
1649-64: the Beaver Wars: Encouraged by the English, and the need for more beaver for trade (their own area being hunted out), Haudenosee (Iroquois) make war on Hurons (1649), Tobaccos (1649), Neutrals (1650–51), Erie (1653–56), Ottawa (1660), Illinois and Miami (1680–84), and members of the Mahican confederation. English, pleased with this, agree to Two-Row Wampum Peace treaty, 1680.
1650-53: Huron survivors of the Beaver Wars settle at Lorette under French protection.
1652: Massachusetts General Court licenses traders going from Massachusetts to Acadia.
1653 Marguerite Bourgeoys (Born Troyes, France April 17, 1620 Died January 12, 1700) the first school teacher in Montreal, arrives from France.
1654: Port Royal seized by Robert Sedgwick. He would hold on to Acadia until 1670.
1653 Louis Chartier, a surgeon, arrives in Ville-Marie to provide medical aid to the settlement.
1654-59: Pierre-Esprit Radisson, French Sieur de Groselliers, encounters a lot of tribes throughout New France, New England, and what is now the U.S. midwest. Adopted by a Mohawk family, who take him to Hudson Bay, there he changes sides and becomes English, participates in the formation of Hudson's Bay Company, and charter of Rupert's Land to it in 1670, deftly switching country allegiances several times France-England-France-England during the process. Ends up English. Today principally remembered by a hotel named after him in Minneapolis.
1655 Étienne Bouchard, a surgeon, begins a successful private medical practice in Ville-Marie.
c. 1655: One of the coureurs de bois, adventurous, unlicensed fur traders who want to escape company restrictions, explores west of Lake Superior.
1657: Sulpicians, who run missions, come to North America.
1658 Marguerite Bourgeoys (Born Troyes, France April 17, 1620 Died January 12, 1700) established the Congregation of Notre Dame, the first uncloistered order of nuns in North America.
1659: A vicar apostolic, the Jesuit-trained Bishop Francois X. de Laval-Montmorency (1623–1708) arrives in Quebec in June as vicar general of the pope to take command of the missions and to found parishes.
1649-64: the Beaver Wars: Encouraged by the English, and the need for more beaver for trade (their own area being hunted out), Haudenosee (Iroquois) make war on Hurons (1649), Tobaccos (1649), Neutrals (1650–51), Erie (1653–56), Ottawa (1660), Illinois and Miami (1680–84), and members of the Mahican confederation. English, pleased with this, agree to 2-Row Wampum Peace treaty, 1680.
1660s-70s French compete with Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) and British fur traders out of New York.
1660-64: In 1660, Dutch governor-general Peter Stuyvesant decides to hold Indian children hostage for the behavior of increasingly angry tribespeople. Hostages sold into Caribbean plantation slavery.
1660: English Navigation Act prohibits foreigners from trading with English colonies.
1660: Adam Dollard des Ormeaux and about sixty others withstand an attack by over 500 Iroquois at Long Sault (May). It is traditionally said that the small party fights so well that the Iroquois decide not to attack Montreal.
1663: The French Crown takes personal control of Canada from a private company, which becomes a royal province. Louis XIV's brilliant minister J. B. Colbert reorganizes New France directly under royal authority. Administration is divided between a military governor and a more powerful intendant, both ruling from Quebec City but under orders from Paris. The fur trade is granted to a new monopoly, the Company of the West Indies.
1663: New France has a population of about 2,000.
1663: Laval organizes the Seminaire du Québec, a college of theology which eventually becomes Université Laval (1852).
1664: The British invade and conquer the Dutch at New Amsterdam, renaming it New York. England gains control of New Netherland from the Dutch and become allies and trade partners with the Iroquois.
1664: Hans Bernhardt is the first recorded German immigrant.
1665-72: Jean Talon (c.1625-94), the first intendant of New France, sets out to establish New France as a prosperous, expanding colony rivaling the thriving English colonies to the south. He invites many new settlers, including young women. He also tries to diversify the economy beyond furs and to build trade with Acadia and the West Indies. Talon is recalled before he can carry out his policies, however.
1665: The Carignan-Salières Regiment is sent from France to Quebec to deal with the Iroquois. Many of its members stay on as settlers.
1666: The Carignan-Salières Regiment destroys five Mohawk villages, eventually leading to peace between the Iroquois and the French.
1668-69: Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Medard Chouart, sieur de Groseilliers, explore west of the St. Lawrence River as far as Lake Superior, plus the Hudson Bay region, for England.
1668: The Carignan-Salières regiment is recalled to France, but several hundred choose to remain behind, many in return for local seigneuries.
1669: HBC Ft. Charles, at foot of James Bay, becomes Ft. Rupert.
1670 - The Hudson's Bay Company established
1672 - New France expansion into Canada under Louis de Frontenac
1673: The explorations of Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette lead to the discovery of the Mississippi River.
1674: Laval becomes the first bishop of Quebec.
1675-76: Bacon's Rebellion -- Third major war between Virginia settlers and Virginia and Maryland Native Americans. Bacon's army kills and enslaves Susquehannock, Occaneechi, Appomatuck, Manakin, members of Powhattan Confederacy. Bacon leads brief rebellion against English Crown authority when his English military murderer commission is rescinded because of excessive brutalities.
1675-76: Metacom's (King Phillip's) War against the New England Confederation of colonies - Wampanoag, later joined by Abenaki, Nipmucs and Narragansetts. Mohawks stay neutral; Mohegans, Pequots, Niantics, and Massachusetts tribes back the English. Metacom loses. English government executes Metacom in 1676, nails body parts to town hall, sells wife, children, followers to plantation slavery.
1675: The population of New France is almost 8,000.
1676: West Country merchants attempt to enforce restrictions on settlement in Newfoundland.
1678: Louis Hennepin is the first European to see Niagara Falls.
1678-79: Daniel Greysolon Duluth of France explores Great Lakes and negotiates treaties between the warring Ojibwa and Sioux.
1758 - French power in Canada declines as the British capture Ft. Louisburg
1682: Robert Cavelier, sieur de la Salle reaches the mouth of the Mississippi River and claims the entire Mississippi Valley for France, naming the area Louisiana.
1682: William Penn's treaty with the Delaware begins a period of friendly relations between the Quakers and Indians.
1683: After the death of Louis XIV's brilliant minister, J. B. Colbert, France's interest in the colonies wanes.
c. 1685: In North America, the English and French vie for control.
1685: LaSalle lands at Matagorda Bay, builds Fort St. Louis.
1686: Mackinac region, Rooseboom and McGregor open trade but are seized by the French.
1686: De Troyes and D'Iberville capture three English posts on James Bay (June-July).
1686: King James II and Louis XIV sign neutrality pact handing forts of St. John's and Port Royal back to the French.
1689-1697: King William's War (American counterpart of the War of the Grand Alliance in Europe) -- Abenakis, Penobscot, other New England tribes, attacked by English and their Iroquois allies. This is the first of the French-English wars for control of North America, continuing to 1763. During these wars, the Iroquois League generally sides with the English, and the Algonquian tribes with the French.
1689: Nicolas Perrot formally claims upper Mississippi region for France.
1689: The Iroquois kill many French settlers at Lachine.
1690: Sent by Massachusetts, Sir William Phips captures Port Royal (11 May). Frontenac repels Phips' attack on Quebec (October). These events are part of what is sometimes called King William's War.
1692 22 October - Marie-Madeleine Jarret de Verchères defends the family fort with a handful of seniors and children against the Iroquois, a true youthful hero of New France.
1696-97: European fur market collapses as fashion temporarily changes, leading to an increase in colonist settlers wanting permanent land to clear and farm.
1697: After almost a decade of guerrilla warfare, the Peace of Ryswick merely confirms the status quo, even returning Acadia, captured by the English, to the French. England and France make temporary peace in 1697 (Treaty of Ryswick). French continue to pressure Iroquois, who eventually agree to (but don't hold) neutrality in the English-French conflicts. The 1693 group of Maritimes Tribal treaties mentioned above comes from this war.
January 26th, 1700 - The Cascadia Earthquake, one of the largest earthquakes on record, ruptures the Cascadia subduction zone offshore from Vancouver Island to northern California, creating a tsunami that wiped out the winter village of Pachena Bay leaving no survivors.
1702-13: The short-lived Peace of Ryswick collapses with the outbreak of the War of the Spanish Succession, which erupts in the colonies as Queen Anne's War. It ends with France losing North American territory to Britain.
1702-13: Queen Anne's War—Maine Abenakis and Iroquois from Quebec (Caughnawaga) attack the English colonists on behalf of the French, but lose. The European nations negotiate their settlement at the Treaty of Utrecht (1713); Louis XIV cedes Hudson Bay, Acadia (Nova Scotia) and Newfoundland (but not Cape Breton Island or St. John's Island) to Great Britain.
1704 - French destroy the English settlement at Bonavista, Newfoundland.
1709 - Slavery becomes legal in New France
1710 - The English recapture Acadia, this time permanently, and rename it Nova Scotia.
1710 - Three Mohawk chiefs and one Mahican are received in Queen Anne's court in England as the Four Kings of the New World.
1720-60 - The Chickasaw fight the French and the Choctaw in the Southeast.
c. 1720: French forts along the Mississippi River spread northward from New Orleans.
1725-1729 - First Arctic expedition of Vitas Bering.
1759 - Battle on the Plains of Abraham
1763 - Treaty of Paris: French colonies in North America were passed to the British Crown. Mathieu's name changed to Matthew in accordance with his subsequent Anglicisation, he now belongs to Arthur Kirkland.
1778 - Captain James Cooke explores the West Coast
1791 - Constitutional Act establishes Upper & Lower Canada
1812 - War of 1812: American invasion of Upper Canada in the summer of 1812 centring around the Great Lakes and the Canadian frontier . Canada kicks his brother's butt for trying to annex him. Also because England said so.
1821 - North West Company established
1837 - Upper & Lower Canada Rebellions
1840 - Act of Union
1866 - The Fenian Raid and Battle of Ridgeway
1867 - Dominion of Canada was formed and self-government was granted to Ontario (formerly Upper Canada), Quebec (formerly Lower Canada), New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia
1873 - North-West Mounted Police ( Mounties) established, Matthew happily takes a role among their ranks - which he's still in today.
1885 - Canadian Pacific Railway Completed
1885 - North-West Rebellion (or North-West Resistance or the Saskatchewan Rebellion
1898 - Klondike Gold Rush
1899 -
October 4 - First Canadian troops sent to an overseas war (Boer War)
October 18 - Henri Bourassa resigns from cabinet to protest Canada's intervention in the Boer War
October 21 - George William Ross becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Arthur S. Hardy
October 30 - Second Boer War: The first Canadian troops arrive in South Africa
November 4 - The fourth election of the North-West Legislative Assembly
1902 -
May 24 - The first Victoria Day is celebrated
May 29 - 1902 Ontario general election: G. W. Ross's Liberals win a second consecutive majority
May 31 - The Second Boer War ends, and Canadian troops return home to great acclaim
July 1 - Ray Knight stages the first Raymond Stampede in Raymond, Alberta, and in so doing coined the rodeo word "stampede", thus launching his rodeo career as the world's first rodeo producer and stock contractor, as well as being the world's richest rodeo promoter with some one million acres (4000 km2) of ranchland with 18,000 head of cattle and 3,000 head of horses. The Raymond Stampede is now Canada's oldest rodeo
August 9 - Edward VII is crowned King of the United Kingdom and of Canada.
1903 -
March 25 - The Alaska Boundary Dispute is settled in the United States' favour
April 29 - The Frank Slide, The most destructive landslide in Canadian history kills 70 in Frank, Alberta
1906 - Canada's first movie theatre Ouimetoscope opens in Montreal
1907 - basically some Anti Asian Rioting starts up
1914 - World War I, August 4th Canada officially involved in conflict
1939 - Great Depression
1939 - September: World War 2 starts. Unlike America, Matthew is not a pussy and fights the whole damn thing. Because England said so.
1960 - Quiet Revolution: Rise of Quebec Separation Sentiment
1970 - War Measures Act Proclaimed on Quebec
1972 - Marijuana growth legalised.
1982 - Canadian constitution was adopted
1983 - Canada adopts the metric system, also he gets his first female governor.
1988 - Canada's abortion laws repealed
1989 - The Canadian-American Free Trade Act comes into effect
1993 - Along with America and Mexico, Canada establishes NAFTA, and joins January 1st, 1994
1998 - The Ice Storm of 1998, caused by El Niño, strikes southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting in widespread power failures, severe damage to forests, and a number of deaths.
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You know me, gais. Imma be lazy this time, go read Arthur or Lovi's.
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MATTHEW (CANADA) WILLAIMS
{Yeah I know that you wanna be Canadian please!}
{Yeah I know that you wanna be Canadian please!}
I Feel Like We're Summoning The Devil
Nickname/Alias: Matty, Matt, "America?", Canadia, Who?
Gender: Male
Character Type: Country
Country or Country of Origin: Technically Vinland, but… Canada
Canon or Original: Canon
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When I look into all of your stupid faces
I think how fun it will be to pound them into dust
Hair: Wheat-blonde and down to just below his chin
Height and Weight:6'6'', roughly one-hundred-ninety/two-hundred pounds. Yes. I blatantly disregard canon height. Canada's the second largest country on earth. He's going to be freaking tall.
Other Distinguishing Features: Distinguishing? Canada? He's practically invisible, there's not much to distinguish through all of that!
I kid. Probable Montreal, which sticks out from the centre of his forehead and hangs down in a curly-loop.
Overall Appearance: The first thing you're likely to notice about Matthew - if you are to notice him at all - is his height. Matthew stands at six-six, in reflection of his large land mass, being that he's the second largest country on Earth
Perhaps next most notable would be his ever-present hoodie. And I really do mean ever-present. Matthew is so used to being forgotten that he's developed an irrational fear that he'll forget himself if he doesn't have a reminder that he's Canada on him at all times, so he gets hyper paranoid about taking that hoodie off. So it's pretty rare to see him out of it, save for when he's on duty as a Mountie, and during war time. He's not too scared up, though he does still have a burn scar from when his capital was burned down in 1812 (which he paid back in kind, thank you very much), and a rather nasty one from Halifax, but other than that they're only light things because he's fairly young and hasn't been involved in too too many combat situations, comparatively.
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Man up or I'll beat you with my peace prize!
★ Tim Hortons
★ Pancakes (well, rather, the syrup that goes on them)
★ Hockey
★ His brother (sometimes)
★ His papa (all the time)
★ good beer, on occasion
★ His bear, even if he can't remember his name
★ Those rare times when people actually notice him
★ A special plant he grows~~
★ A certain latina woman just south of his brother's border. <3
Dislikes:
✖ That Aunt Jemima crap his brother makes
✖ Baseball - no blood? Not a sport.
✖ the fur trade - he lost one of his best friends that way, and even though it's what made him what he is today, he still resents what it cost him.
✖ Being forgotten - he's an important country thank you very much!
✖ Being accused of cheating
✖ Being called forgetful, a pot head, or a slacker. Yes, sometimes he can be a bit lazy and he does enjoy the finer bits he grows, but that's not all he does, not by a long shot
Strengths:
+ Physical strength - he does have it, even if it's not quite so impressive as his brother's
+ He's damn near invisible. You think that isn't useful?
+ He consumes enough syrup in one day to make most people diabetic, but it seems he has a cast-iron stomach when it comes to sugar
+ He's part French - this boy can cook.
Weaknesses:
- He's ignored so regularly he's pretty socially awkward sometimes.
- He's not very confident in himself, largely because a big part of him wants to break off, it really shakes his self-confidence.
- He has some really bad anger issues, if you push him to the point of snapping he can't always stop himself.
- Despite his size he's really easy to overlook, and sometimes (read: often) he gets passed over completely.
Fears:
☣ That he'll forget himself, and then there'll be no one who knows what he represents.
☣ That Quebec really will manage to leave (Quebec, by the way, is his reflection. And will someday get his own personality section in here when I'm not feeling lazy)
☣ That the few people who do still notice him will realise that he's not good enough for him and leave, forgetting him as well.
☣ Mostly being alone and forgotten if you haven't gotten that from the above. He's got a lot of self-doubt problems, as will be gone into detail later.
Secrets:
♦ Quebec is his reflection, and was originally Mathieu Bonnefois, but is now a subset personality of Matthew Williams. Sometimes he gets noisy when he's trying to secede and has even driven Matthew to self-harm in the past trying to cut himself free, though nothing as bad as, say, America's civil war.
♦ Matthew's polar bear is actually Yukon Territory. If Yukon ever became a Provence Kumajirou would die. Matthew can't remember his name because when he was a boy he only needed to call him 'Bear', and Kuma can't remember Matthew's because he's gone through so many name changes and country titles since they first found one another.
♦ He does grow pot. He likes it. Lars introduced him to it, and it keeps him calm.
♦ He can be just as obnoxious and loud as his brother, he's just a lot more mellow these days thanks to a mixture of what he tokes up on and because he knows the world couldn't handle two Alfred's.
♦ He keeps all of the tulips Holland sends him. But he has no idea what to do with them so they just sit in the upstairs of his house, they have their own floor now.
Any Quirks/Habits: Not really. He talks to himself?
Overall Personality: Matthew seems to be quite a quiet person, but that's largely just because no one bothers to take the time to listen to him - if someone's willing to listen he can just go on and on for ages, it's just that no one bothers to listen when he does so he's seen as a very quiet nation. On the contrary, he has just as much to say as his brother does, but no opportunity. That being said, he's still very awkward around people, and can come off as very shy, when in fact he's just not used to talking so much or being paid that much attention to, so he sometimes forgets that he's supposed to respond.
Matthew isn't a very socially conscious lad, or a very conscious lad period, he tends to space out a lot and sometimes gets lost mid-sentence if he's not interested in what you're saying. It's not that he's ignoring you, it's just that he has a very short attention span, and because very few people notice him long enough to scold him for this, he's never tried to remedy that.
HE is related to America - and it does show sometimes. He can be just as stubborn, and sometimes just as loud - it's just rare to see him so blatantly so. He can also be just a s violently badarse during wartime, and since he's usually caught up in it longer might even arguably be more experienced in such. He certainly isn't one to shirk from something physical, despite how he might seem very non-confrontational - he makes a point to always mind his manners, and in general is quite polite, but when it comes down to it he has no problem throwing down. Especially against his brother who he regularly gets annoyed with and has no problem chewing out when necessary. Though his preferred mode of settling things is a game - of hockey, naturally, one-on-one, first to ten takes the cake - largely because he can get away with throwing his weight around and letting his aggression out without being seen as a violent bastard, which isn't exactly the sort of image he wants to project. Largely because he's very eager to please anyone and everyone he meets (except, perhaps, the Asians that keep invading his house - leave some room for his people too, please! - and occasionally England, who he does have some lasting resentment towards) - you would too if the world forgot you. It tends to make one a bit desperate for attention, sometimes of any sort, though Matthew's always been the sort to hunger for affection, largely thanks to his mid-childhood spent being passed around form group to group, much like a child in foster character will often either go to destructive measures for attention or try their hardest to do everything absolutely perfectly. So has Matthew become the sort to try to please anyone he's around in the hopes that they won't abandon him too.
TL;DR version:
He's a sweetheart who's very polite as a general rule, tries to get along with everyone, and sometimes has flashes of blinding anger. Also he has some self esteem problems. Ayup.
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I'm the hero!
Pre 1000 - Canada inhabited by the Inuit people
1000 - The Vikings travelled and settled in Canada
1000 - 1450 - Sometime in here, a young blonde-haired boy is born. He grows into a toddler but after that doesn't age.
1450 - the Iroquois form the Great League of Peace and Power.
1492 - Christopher Columbus (1451–1506), backed by Spain, reaches San Salvador Island (Guanahani to the natives), "discovering the New World" and encountering Arawak and Taíno people. Thinking he is in India, he calls them Indians.
1494 - Treaty of Tordesillas divides the colonial world between Spain and Portugal.
1496 - March 5: King Henry VII of England granted John Cabot the right to 'seek islands and countries of the heathen towards the west, east, and north' sailing under the English flag
1497 - May 2: John Cabot embarked on his ship, The Matthew, to explore the lands across the Atlantic, hoping to find a north west passage to the Indies and China. John Cabot and his son Sebastian were the first Europeans to discover Canada, landing on the coast of Newfoundland.
1498 - English explorer John Cabot, making a second voyage to North America (looking for Northwest Passage to India), travels the coast of Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and trades furs with Micmacs.
c. 1500: European diseases begin killing native North Americans, who have no immunity to them.
1521-26: João Álvares Fagundes establishes the first European colony in North America on Cape Breton Island. It later fails.
1523-24: Giovanni da Verrazzano, sailing for France, explores the Atlantic coast, encountering Wampanoag, Narragansett, and Delaware Indians.
c. 1530-50: The French explorer Jacques Cartier sails up the St. Lawrence River, claiming the land for France. His failure to find a northwest passage - or gold, as the Spanish had in Peru - discourages further exploration. France was also too preoccupied with domestic religious wars to make any substantial commitment. The discovery of Canada was important, however, to English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese fishing fleets, all of which regularly fish the Grand Banks off the coast of Newfoundland.
1534-41: Jacques Cartier of France explores the St. Lawrence River area in three voyages, making contact with Iroquoian speaking tribes.
1534: French explorer Jacques Cartier visits the Strait of Belle Isle (Newfoundland), enters and charts Gulf of St. Lawrence River, landing in Gaspé, July 14. His ship becomes icebound, men suffering from scurvy aided by Iroquoian native, who feed them vitamin C in boiled spruce. He takes two Iroquoians with him back to France.
1535: Cartier sails up the St. Lawrence River and reaches the St. Lawrence Iroquoian villages of Stadacona and Hochelaga (now Quebec City and Montreal).
1541: Jacques Cartier and Sieur de Roberval attempt to colonize Quebec, founding the first French settlement in America, Charlesbourg-Royal, at the mouth of the Cap Rouge River.
1542: Charlesbourg-Royal is abandoned. Cartier meets the sieur de Roberval, who was officially part of the same expedition, in Newfoundland.
1576-78: Martin Frobisher, seeking a Northwest Passage to the Pacific, encounters various Eskimo groups.
1583: Sir Humphrey Gilbert, brother-in-law of Sir Walter Raleigh, claims Newfoundland as England's first overseas colony.
1603 - March 15: Samuel de Champlain set sail for Quebec from Honfleur, France following in the path of Jacques Cartier to the St Lawrence River and Tadoussac
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 in Acadia (later Nova Scotia) and at Quebec City on the St. Lawrence.
1604-06: Mattieu da Costa travels with the Champlain expedition to Port Royal. He serves as an interpreter between the French and the Micmac 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 establishes the first successful New France Colony at Port Royal, Mathieu given to one Francois Bonnefois
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 the Algonquins against the Iroquois at Lake Champlain. He fires on the Iroquois, setting a pattern of Indian relationships.
1610: Henry Hudson, in service of the Netherlands, explores the river named for him. Hudson explores Hudson Bay in spite of a mutinous crew. Manhattan Indians attack his ship. Mahican people make peaceful contact, and a lucrative fur trade begins.
1610: Etienne Brule lives among Huron and is first European to see Lakes Ontario, Huron and Superior.
1611: Champlain builds fur post at Montreal.
1612: Champlain is named Governor of New France.
1613: In response to gunfire aimed at them, the Beothuk of Newfoundland kill 37 French fisherman. The French retaliate by arming the Micmac, traditional enemies of the Beothuk, and offering bounties for scalps. The Beothuk are soon virtually exterminated.
1613: Port Royal sacked by Samuel Argall and his pirates from Virginia.
1613: St. John's, Newfoundland is founded.
1614: Franciscan Recollet friars arrive to convert the Indians.
1615: French Roman Catholic missionaries arrive in Canada.
1615: Champlain attacks Onondaga villages with the help of a Huron war party, this turning the Iroquois League against the French.
1616-20: Smallpox epidemic strikes New England tribes between Narragansett Bay and the Penobscot River.
1617: Louis Hebert, an apothecary who had stayed at Port Royal twice, brings his wife and children to Quebec, thus becoming the first true habitant (permanent settler supporting his family from the soil).
1621: Dutch West India Company chartered, expands up the Hudson and Delaware rivers.
1621: James I of England (VI of Scotland) grants Acadia to Sir William Alexander who renames it New Scotland (Nova Scotia)
1625: the Baronet of Nova Scotia is founded
1625: French settlements in the West Indies begin, exporting sugar and tobacco, and emigration to Canada is encouraged among traders and fishermen.
1625: The Franciscan friars are replaced by the heroic priests of the richer, better-organized Society of Jesus. Jesuits begin missionary work among the Indians in the Quebec area. Jean de Brébeuf founds missions in Huronia, near Georgian Bay.
1626: Peter Minuit, governor of New Netherland, buys Manhattan Island for 60 guilders worth of trade goods from the Canarsie Indians. (Dutch later have to pay Manhattan Indians, actual occupants of the island.) Dutch policy is land payments to Indians, neutrality in Indian conflicts relating to French-English struggle.
1627: Cardinal Richelieu, chief adviser to Louis XIII, organizes a joint-stock company, the Company of One Hundred Associates (also known as the Company of New France), to establish a French Empire in North America. It is given a fur monopoly and title to all lands claimed by New France (April 29). In exchange, they are to establish a French colony of 4000 by 1643, which they fail to do.
1628: Olivier Le Jeune, an 8-year-old boy from Madagascar, arrives in Quebec. He is the first recorded slave purchase in New France. Le Jeune is probably the first person of African origin to live most of his life in Canada.
July 19, 1629: Quebec City is captured by an English fleet led by the adventurer David Kirke.
1631: Charles de la Tour builds Fort La Tour (also known as Fort Saint Marie) at the mouth of the Saint John River.
1632: British lose control of Acadia through the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, which returns Quebec to France.
1632: Isaac de Razilly sails from France with 300 people hoping to establish a permanent French settlement in Acadia.
1632: Starting this year, Dutch colonists begin to demand more farmlands.
1633–: English and French settlers enlist mainland Indians, mostly Micmac to massacre Beothuk people of Newfoundland, who are now extinct. "Red" Indian apparently derives from these people, who painted their bodies with red ochre. Nancy Shawanahdit, the last Beothuk, died in 1829. Little is known of their customs, language, religion. Beothuk was not likely their tribal self-name.
1633–35: New smallpox outbreaks among Indians of New England, New France, and New Netherland.
1633: David Kirke is knighted.
1634: the first of the Filles du Roi, young French women who 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.
1634–40: The Huron nation is reduced by half from European diseases (smallpox epidemic, 1639).
1634 Marie de L'Incarnation founds an Ursuline convent in the settlement of Quebec
1634: The trade settlement at Trois-Rivières is founded.
c. 1635: English fishing interests secure a virtual prohibition on efforts to colonize Newfoundland.
1636–37: Pequot War in New England against the English. (Niantics, Narragansetts later joined). Capt. John Mason burnt sleeping Pequot village at Mystic River, pinning the people inside the flames by gunfire, killing more than 600 people in a surprise attack. Mohawks behead fleeing Pequot leaders to prove they were not involved.
1636: French crown grants Gulf of Maine and Bay of Fundy to d'Aulnay; La Tour gets Nova Scotia peninsula.
1637: David Kirke is named first governor of Newfoundland.
1639: Ursuline nuns come to North America, who educate girls.
1639: Smallpox epidemic decimates Huron people; population reduced by 50%.
1639: Dutch governor-general William Kieft adopts policy of exterminating the hostile Indians and taxing the rest. Dutch soldiers aid Mohawk allies to carry out Pavonia massacre, where Dutch soldiers played kickball with the heads of the women and children refugees they had killed.
1639: The Jesuit mission of Sainte-Marie among the Hurons is established at Wendake.
c. 1640: Beavers and otters nearly exterminated in Iroquois country. To expand territory, Iroquois launch decades-long "Beaver Wars" against Huron, Algonquin and Themselves
1640: Lake Erie discovered.
May 17, 1642: The trade settlement at Montreal is founded by the Sieur de Maisonneuve.
January 5, 1643: The first Mount Royal Cross erected
1644: Second Powhatan Confederacy uprising against Jamestown, Virginia; its leader, Opechancanough, dies in captivity.
1644 Jeanne Mance (Baptized Langres, France November 12, 1606 Died June 18, 1673) opens Hotel-Dieu, the first hospital in North America.
1645-63: Under the proprietorship of Richelieu's company's colonial agent, the Community of Habitants, the new French colony takes shape along the St. Lawrence.
1648-49: After the Iroquois brutally ravage Huron country and disperse the Huron nation north of the St. Lawrence, they turn against New France itself.
1649-64: the Beaver Wars: Encouraged by the English, and the need for more beaver for trade (their own area being hunted out), Haudenosee (Iroquois) make war on Hurons (1649), Tobaccos (1649), Neutrals (1650–51), Erie (1653–56), Ottawa (1660), Illinois and Miami (1680–84), and members of the Mahican confederation. English, pleased with this, agree to 2-Row Wampum Peace treaty, 1680.
1649: Attacks by the Iroquois disperse the Huron; disrupts fur trade over the next fifteen years.
1649: The Jesuit father Jean de Brébeuf is martyred during Iroquois raids on the Hurons at St-Ignace (March 16).
1649: The Jesuit missionaries at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons abandon the mission, burning it to the ground and taking refuge at Christian Island (June 16)
1649-64: the Beaver Wars: Encouraged by the English, and the need for more beaver for trade (their own area being hunted out), Haudenosee (Iroquois) make war on Hurons (1649), Tobaccos (1649), Neutrals (1650–51), Erie (1653–56), Ottawa (1660), Illinois and Miami (1680–84), and members of the Mahican confederation. English, pleased with this, agree to Two-Row Wampum Peace treaty, 1680.
1650-53: Huron survivors of the Beaver Wars settle at Lorette under French protection.
1652: Massachusetts General Court licenses traders going from Massachusetts to Acadia.
1653 Marguerite Bourgeoys (Born Troyes, France April 17, 1620 Died January 12, 1700) the first school teacher in Montreal, arrives from France.
1654: Port Royal seized by Robert Sedgwick. He would hold on to Acadia until 1670.
1653 Louis Chartier, a surgeon, arrives in Ville-Marie to provide medical aid to the settlement.
1654-59: Pierre-Esprit Radisson, French Sieur de Groselliers, encounters a lot of tribes throughout New France, New England, and what is now the U.S. midwest. Adopted by a Mohawk family, who take him to Hudson Bay, there he changes sides and becomes English, participates in the formation of Hudson's Bay Company, and charter of Rupert's Land to it in 1670, deftly switching country allegiances several times France-England-France-England during the process. Ends up English. Today principally remembered by a hotel named after him in Minneapolis.
1655 Étienne Bouchard, a surgeon, begins a successful private medical practice in Ville-Marie.
c. 1655: One of the coureurs de bois, adventurous, unlicensed fur traders who want to escape company restrictions, explores west of Lake Superior.
1657: Sulpicians, who run missions, come to North America.
1658 Marguerite Bourgeoys (Born Troyes, France April 17, 1620 Died January 12, 1700) established the Congregation of Notre Dame, the first uncloistered order of nuns in North America.
1659: A vicar apostolic, the Jesuit-trained Bishop Francois X. de Laval-Montmorency (1623–1708) arrives in Quebec in June as vicar general of the pope to take command of the missions and to found parishes.
1649-64: the Beaver Wars: Encouraged by the English, and the need for more beaver for trade (their own area being hunted out), Haudenosee (Iroquois) make war on Hurons (1649), Tobaccos (1649), Neutrals (1650–51), Erie (1653–56), Ottawa (1660), Illinois and Miami (1680–84), and members of the Mahican confederation. English, pleased with this, agree to 2-Row Wampum Peace treaty, 1680.
1660s-70s French compete with Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) and British fur traders out of New York.
1660-64: In 1660, Dutch governor-general Peter Stuyvesant decides to hold Indian children hostage for the behavior of increasingly angry tribespeople. Hostages sold into Caribbean plantation slavery.
1660: English Navigation Act prohibits foreigners from trading with English colonies.
1660: Adam Dollard des Ormeaux and about sixty others withstand an attack by over 500 Iroquois at Long Sault (May). It is traditionally said that the small party fights so well that the Iroquois decide not to attack Montreal.
1663: The French Crown takes personal control of Canada from a private company, which becomes a royal province. Louis XIV's brilliant minister J. B. Colbert reorganizes New France directly under royal authority. Administration is divided between a military governor and a more powerful intendant, both ruling from Quebec City but under orders from Paris. The fur trade is granted to a new monopoly, the Company of the West Indies.
1663: New France has a population of about 2,000.
1663: Laval organizes the Seminaire du Québec, a college of theology which eventually becomes Université Laval (1852).
1664: The British invade and conquer the Dutch at New Amsterdam, renaming it New York. England gains control of New Netherland from the Dutch and become allies and trade partners with the Iroquois.
1664: Hans Bernhardt is the first recorded German immigrant.
1665-72: Jean Talon (c.1625-94), the first intendant of New France, sets out to establish New France as a prosperous, expanding colony rivaling the thriving English colonies to the south. He invites many new settlers, including young women. He also tries to diversify the economy beyond furs and to build trade with Acadia and the West Indies. Talon is recalled before he can carry out his policies, however.
1665: The Carignan-Salières Regiment is sent from France to Quebec to deal with the Iroquois. Many of its members stay on as settlers.
1666: The Carignan-Salières Regiment destroys five Mohawk villages, eventually leading to peace between the Iroquois and the French.
1668-69: Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Medard Chouart, sieur de Groseilliers, explore west of the St. Lawrence River as far as Lake Superior, plus the Hudson Bay region, for England.
1668: The Carignan-Salières regiment is recalled to France, but several hundred choose to remain behind, many in return for local seigneuries.
1669: HBC Ft. Charles, at foot of James Bay, becomes Ft. Rupert.
1670 - The Hudson's Bay Company established
1672 - New France expansion into Canada under Louis de Frontenac
1673: The explorations of Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette lead to the discovery of the Mississippi River.
1674: Laval becomes the first bishop of Quebec.
1675-76: Bacon's Rebellion -- Third major war between Virginia settlers and Virginia and Maryland Native Americans. Bacon's army kills and enslaves Susquehannock, Occaneechi, Appomatuck, Manakin, members of Powhattan Confederacy. Bacon leads brief rebellion against English Crown authority when his English military murderer commission is rescinded because of excessive brutalities.
1675-76: Metacom's (King Phillip's) War against the New England Confederation of colonies - Wampanoag, later joined by Abenaki, Nipmucs and Narragansetts. Mohawks stay neutral; Mohegans, Pequots, Niantics, and Massachusetts tribes back the English. Metacom loses. English government executes Metacom in 1676, nails body parts to town hall, sells wife, children, followers to plantation slavery.
1675: The population of New France is almost 8,000.
1676: West Country merchants attempt to enforce restrictions on settlement in Newfoundland.
1678: Louis Hennepin is the first European to see Niagara Falls.
1678-79: Daniel Greysolon Duluth of France explores Great Lakes and negotiates treaties between the warring Ojibwa and Sioux.
1758 - French power in Canada declines as the British capture Ft. Louisburg
1682: Robert Cavelier, sieur de la Salle reaches the mouth of the Mississippi River and claims the entire Mississippi Valley for France, naming the area Louisiana.
1682: William Penn's treaty with the Delaware begins a period of friendly relations between the Quakers and Indians.
1683: After the death of Louis XIV's brilliant minister, J. B. Colbert, France's interest in the colonies wanes.
c. 1685: In North America, the English and French vie for control.
1685: LaSalle lands at Matagorda Bay, builds Fort St. Louis.
1686: Mackinac region, Rooseboom and McGregor open trade but are seized by the French.
1686: De Troyes and D'Iberville capture three English posts on James Bay (June-July).
1686: King James II and Louis XIV sign neutrality pact handing forts of St. John's and Port Royal back to the French.
1689-1697: King William's War (American counterpart of the War of the Grand Alliance in Europe) -- Abenakis, Penobscot, other New England tribes, attacked by English and their Iroquois allies. This is the first of the French-English wars for control of North America, continuing to 1763. During these wars, the Iroquois League generally sides with the English, and the Algonquian tribes with the French.
1689: Nicolas Perrot formally claims upper Mississippi region for France.
1689: The Iroquois kill many French settlers at Lachine.
1690: Sent by Massachusetts, Sir William Phips captures Port Royal (11 May). Frontenac repels Phips' attack on Quebec (October). These events are part of what is sometimes called King William's War.
1692 22 October - Marie-Madeleine Jarret de Verchères defends the family fort with a handful of seniors and children against the Iroquois, a true youthful hero of New France.
1696-97: European fur market collapses as fashion temporarily changes, leading to an increase in colonist settlers wanting permanent land to clear and farm.
1697: After almost a decade of guerrilla warfare, the Peace of Ryswick merely confirms the status quo, even returning Acadia, captured by the English, to the French. England and France make temporary peace in 1697 (Treaty of Ryswick). French continue to pressure Iroquois, who eventually agree to (but don't hold) neutrality in the English-French conflicts. The 1693 group of Maritimes Tribal treaties mentioned above comes from this war.
January 26th, 1700 - The Cascadia Earthquake, one of the largest earthquakes on record, ruptures the Cascadia subduction zone offshore from Vancouver Island to northern California, creating a tsunami that wiped out the winter village of Pachena Bay leaving no survivors.
1702-13: The short-lived Peace of Ryswick collapses with the outbreak of the War of the Spanish Succession, which erupts in the colonies as Queen Anne's War. It ends with France losing North American territory to Britain.
1702-13: Queen Anne's War—Maine Abenakis and Iroquois from Quebec (Caughnawaga) attack the English colonists on behalf of the French, but lose. The European nations negotiate their settlement at the Treaty of Utrecht (1713); Louis XIV cedes Hudson Bay, Acadia (Nova Scotia) and Newfoundland (but not Cape Breton Island or St. John's Island) to Great Britain.
1704 - French destroy the English settlement at Bonavista, Newfoundland.
1709 - Slavery becomes legal in New France
1710 - The English recapture Acadia, this time permanently, and rename it Nova Scotia.
1710 - Three Mohawk chiefs and one Mahican are received in Queen Anne's court in England as the Four Kings of the New World.
1720-60 - The Chickasaw fight the French and the Choctaw in the Southeast.
c. 1720: French forts along the Mississippi River spread northward from New Orleans.
1725-1729 - First Arctic expedition of Vitas Bering.
1759 - Battle on the Plains of Abraham
1763 - Treaty of Paris: French colonies in North America were passed to the British Crown. Mathieu's name changed to Matthew in accordance with his subsequent Anglicisation, he now belongs to Arthur Kirkland.
1778 - Captain James Cooke explores the West Coast
1791 - Constitutional Act establishes Upper & Lower Canada
1812 - War of 1812: American invasion of Upper Canada in the summer of 1812 centring around the Great Lakes and the Canadian frontier . Canada kicks his brother's butt for trying to annex him. Also because England said so.
1821 - North West Company established
1837 - Upper & Lower Canada Rebellions
1840 - Act of Union
1866 - The Fenian Raid and Battle of Ridgeway
1867 - Dominion of Canada was formed and self-government was granted to Ontario (formerly Upper Canada), Quebec (formerly Lower Canada), New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia
1873 - North-West Mounted Police ( Mounties) established, Matthew happily takes a role among their ranks - which he's still in today.
1885 - Canadian Pacific Railway Completed
1885 - North-West Rebellion (or North-West Resistance or the Saskatchewan Rebellion
1898 - Klondike Gold Rush
1899 -
October 4 - First Canadian troops sent to an overseas war (Boer War)
October 18 - Henri Bourassa resigns from cabinet to protest Canada's intervention in the Boer War
October 21 - George William Ross becomes premier of Ontario, replacing Arthur S. Hardy
October 30 - Second Boer War: The first Canadian troops arrive in South Africa
November 4 - The fourth election of the North-West Legislative Assembly
1902 -
May 24 - The first Victoria Day is celebrated
May 29 - 1902 Ontario general election: G. W. Ross's Liberals win a second consecutive majority
May 31 - The Second Boer War ends, and Canadian troops return home to great acclaim
July 1 - Ray Knight stages the first Raymond Stampede in Raymond, Alberta, and in so doing coined the rodeo word "stampede", thus launching his rodeo career as the world's first rodeo producer and stock contractor, as well as being the world's richest rodeo promoter with some one million acres (4000 km2) of ranchland with 18,000 head of cattle and 3,000 head of horses. The Raymond Stampede is now Canada's oldest rodeo
August 9 - Edward VII is crowned King of the United Kingdom and of Canada.
1903 -
March 25 - The Alaska Boundary Dispute is settled in the United States' favour
April 29 - The Frank Slide, The most destructive landslide in Canadian history kills 70 in Frank, Alberta
1906 - Canada's first movie theatre Ouimetoscope opens in Montreal
1907 - basically some Anti Asian Rioting starts up
1914 - World War I, August 4th Canada officially involved in conflict
1939 - Great Depression
1939 - September: World War 2 starts. Unlike America, Matthew is not a pussy and fights the whole damn thing. Because England said so.
1960 - Quiet Revolution: Rise of Quebec Separation Sentiment
1970 - War Measures Act Proclaimed on Quebec
1972 - Marijuana growth legalised.
1982 - Canadian constitution was adopted
1983 - Canada adopts the metric system, also he gets his first female governor.
1988 - Canada's abortion laws repealed
1989 - The Canadian-American Free Trade Act comes into effect
1993 - Along with America and Mexico, Canada establishes NAFTA, and joins January 1st, 1994
1998 - The Ice Storm of 1998, caused by El Niño, strikes southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting in widespread power failures, severe damage to forests, and a number of deaths.
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You've got it backwards! Backwards!
Hurry up and throw it! If you don't hurry up and throw it, you'll go "boom"!
You know me, gais. Imma be lazy this time, go read Arthur or Lovi's.
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I Summon thee from far away lands, come forth!
You called?
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