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  Canada, History New France 1600-1763
New France would eventually comprise Canada (the area drained by the St. Lawrence), Acadia (now the Maritime provinces), the island of Newfoundland (shared unwillingly with the English), and later Louisiana (the valley of the Mississippi River).
During the first decade of royal rule, the monarchy also subsidized immigration from France, notably of some 700 unmarried women, who were later called filles du roi (daughters of the king) because the king paid for their transportation and dowries.
In the 1680s New France was again at war with the Iroquois, partly over control of the fur trade but also as an offshoot of war between France and England.
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 MSN Encarta - France
Although French explorers continued to widen French claims in North America, the French population of Canada in the 1680s stood at only about 10,000.
Another was Paris, where aristocrats mixed more freely with middle-class intellectuals and socialites in informal, private gatherings called salons, which prominent women held in their homes.
When Louis sided with the upper clergy against the local priests in the 1690s, the Jansenists began to build what proved to be a critical alliance with the parlements, which claimed jurisdiction over the Gallican (French Roman Catholic) Church.
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 Canada - Lake Erie - Ecology - Worldpress.org
They hold 20 percent of the world’s fresh water—enough to cover all of Canada to a depth of 2.7 meters [8.9 feet].
Children of the last ice age 12,000 years ago, they’re part of an enormous drainage basin 520,000 square kilometers in size [200,773 square miles], home to 34 million people, 6.4 million of them in Canada.
In the 1680s, an energetic Montreal seminarian, François Dollier de Casson, launched a project to build a 1.5-meter-deep canal to bypass the Lachine Rapids.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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Years: 1679 1680 1681 - 1682 - 1683 1684 1685 Decades: 1650s 1660s 1670s - 1680s - 1690s 1700s 1710s Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1682 in literature 1682 in science 1682 state leaders Events March 11 – Chelsea hospital for soldiers is founded in EnglandM..
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 canada aborigines - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Christian Amerindians...ESCAPE FROM THE ABORIGINES OF CANADA APPEALED TO European...assimilation of the aborigines to the French...impression of Canadas natives in 1632...
Although the cultural influence in Canada of the First Nations people, the designation preferred by the...right to control their education in 1972; as a result, many aborigines have been trained for professions such as medicine, law and...
Canada wants to prohibit foreigners from owning uranium mines, South...locals, New Zealand would give favored treatment to its Maori aborigines and Austria wants to prevent foreigners from becoming chimney...
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 CBC News Indepth: Aboriginal Canadians
The Supreme Court of Canada rules that the federal government cannot be be held fully liable for damages suffered by students abused at a church-run school on Vancouver Island.
It includes the Statement of Reconciliation: Learning from the Past, in which the Government of Canada recognizes and apologizes to those who experienced physical and sexual abuse at Indian residential schools and acknowledges its role in the development and administration of residential schools.
Indian Affairs is transferred from the Imperial Government to the Province of Canada.
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 1700 in Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
See also: 1690s in Canada other events of 1700 1701 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.
Mapping the Margins: The Family and Social Discipline in Canada, 1700 1975
Decentring the Renaissance: Canada and Europe in Multidisciplinary Perspective 1500-1700
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 1858 in Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
See also: 1857 in Canada other events of 1858 1859 in Canada and the Timeline of Canadian history.
One of them Mifflin Gibbs later a key role in persuading British Columbia to become part of Canada.
The songs on this CD are crammed one after the other, with little or no pause in between, which causes a jarring effect when listening to it....
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 Human History of Northern Saskatchewan
Most recently, Lifeways of Canada Limited has carried out heritage investigations in the Midwest Lake area and on Stage I of the Stony Rapids access road.
Because of their linguistic skills these individuals were very important to HBC attempts to contact the Chipewyans and induce them to trade with the company.
The Chipewyans were known to the traders on the Hudson Bay as early as the 1680s; however, the first European known to have travelled into Chipewyan territory was William Stewart, in the winter of 1715-16.
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 French & Indian War Grand Encampment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In addition, with his wife Doree and their two sons, the family paddled the 3,000 miles of the mainline fur trade canoe route across Canada, from Montreal to Fort Chipewyan, in a series of annual segments.
Of the 725 direct French and French Canadian ancestors that Tim has researched (originating from over 120 communities in France), many were involved in the fur trade of North America, from about 1618 to at least 1758.
In addition, other ancestors served as soldiers in Canada, in the Carignan-Saliėres Regiment during the 1660s and the Troupes de la Marine in the 1680s and 1690s.
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 Canadian Military Heritage
The Marquis arrived in Canada in the 1680s as commandant of the Navy troops, before becoming governor of Montreal in 1695 and then governor general of New France in 1703.
An ensign in 1708, he became governor of Trois-Rivières in 1733, governor of Louisiana in 1743, and governor general of New France in 1755.
He was the first officer born in Canada to attain the highest position in all New France.
www.cmhg.gc.ca /cmh/en/page_198.asp   (354 words)

  
 1680s in Canada -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
1680s in Canada -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
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 1690s in Canada -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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Frontenac repels Phips' attack on (The largest province of Canada; a French colony from 1663 to 1759 when it was lost to the British) Quebec (October).
These events are part of what is sometimes called (additional info and facts about King William's War) King William's War.
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 Canada - Lake Erie - Ecology - Worldpress.org
Canada - Lake Erie - Ecology - Worldpress.org
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 Niagara Falls - yourDictionary.com - American Heritage Dictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
A city of southeast Ontario, Canada, on the Niagara River opposite Niagara Falls, New York.
It is a port of entry and an important industrial center.
Occupied by the French in the 1680s, captured by the British in 1759, and settled by Americans in 1805, it was held by the British during the War of 1812.
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 Greenwood Publishing Group : A Lust for Virtue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Midway through his reign, in the critical decade of the 1680s, the lusty image of Louis XIV paled and was replaced by that of a straitlaced monarch committed to locking up blasphemers, debtors, gamblers, and prostitutes in wretched, foul-smelling prisons that dispensed ample doses of Catholic-Reformation virtue.
The author demonstrates how this attack on sin expressed the punitive social policy of the French Catholic Reformation and how Louis's actions clarified the legal and moral distinctions between crime and sin.
If paying by check, please add shipping and handling: U.S. residents, add 10%; Canada residents, add 12%; $6 minimum.
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 1680s in Canada - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
1680s in Canada - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com
''See also:'' 1670s_in_Canada, other events of the 1680s, 1690s_in_Canada and the list_of_'years_in_Canada'.
A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
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 The Ultimate 1713 Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
1680s 1690s 1700s - 1710s - 1720s 1730s 1740s
April 11 - War of the Spanish Succession: Treaty of Utrecht
June 23 - French residents of Acadia given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia Canada
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 Amazon.ca: DVD: Captain Blood [IMPORT]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
James, while detached, was not the cold hearted fool we see here.
The film has historic interest, portraying England as it does during the 1680s, the reign of James II before the advent of the Glorious Revolution which sees him removed in favor of William III of Orange and Queen Mary.
The movie only touches on these political developments, but its interesting to see them as factors in the background.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JMR7   (2054 words)

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