Ontario History Timeline
Storyboard Description
Create a timeline of Ontario's history, or the history of another Canadian province.
Texte du Storyboard
- Early People
- Ontario
- In the early 1500s, early people such as the Algonquians, the Cree, the Iroquois, and the Huron inhabited Canada; they fished and hunted.
- Explorers
- This land is perfect!
- Explorers came to survey the land, and in 1611 it was claimed for England.
- Seven Year's War
- British Loyalists
- The French and the English fought over the land in the Seven Years’ War. The war ended in 1763 with the signing of the “Treaty of Paris”, and England victorious.
- Dominion of Canada
- Quebec
- When the American Revolution ended, British loyalists fled from the U.S. to Canada, splitting the Quebec colony into Lower Canada (French speaking) and Upper Canada (English speaking that later became Ontario).
- Mining
- The Dominion of Canada was established, which meant it was self-governed, but still within the British Empire. Ontario became a province along with Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick.
- Ontario
- New Brunswick
- Nova Scotia
- In the late 1800s, mining became very prevalent, and hydroelectric power was on the rise.
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