story

HISTORY OF CANADIAN CANOE

Storia della canoa canadese / Histoire du canot canadien

BASIC CHRONOLOGY

FRENCH PERIOD

1534 Cartier explores st.Lawrence river's bay and arrives up to Montreal zone (Lachine rapids).
1603 Champlain goes inside the territory, with Hurons and Algonquins as allies, fighting with the Hiroquois.
1611 Hudson discovers Hudson's bay.
1613 He reaches the Ottawa zone.
1615 He arrives at Lake Huron.
1630 Courreurs de bois begin the beaver fur trade.
1658 Radissons and De Grosseliers continue the explorations.
1660 Trois Rivières is an organized building place for canoes.
1670 Iroquois and English defeat the Hollanders.
1682 La Salle runs the Missisippi and creats the Louisiana (in honor of Louis XIV).
1700 The fur trade is established with Canots du Maitre (12 mt) for the section Montréal-Grand Portage and the Canots du Nord (6 mt) for the section Saskatchewan-Grand Portage. All birchbark canoes.
1740 Pierre Gautier de Varennes reaches the Winnipeg lake.
1748 He goes up the Saskatchewan river.

ENGLISH PERIOD

1760 Defeat of Montreal.
1761 Alexander Henry reorganizes the fur trade with english leadership.
1763 Trety of Paris: Canada goes to the English.
1775 North West Company is born : cooperation between English and French. Main base at Montreal and branch at Grand Portage.
1783 American Independence. Treaty of Versailles.
1789 Mackenzie arrives to the Artic sea running his river.
1793 Fraser, leaving from Athabasca lake, reaches the Pacific Ocean, on his river.
1808 Fraser reaches the Pacific Ocean running the Columbia river.
1811 First stripper canoes in cedar tree.
1812 The branch of NWC goes to Fort William.
1820 Birchbark canoes are losing importance. First railroads. Immigrants. Bicycles.