American
Colonies |
Kirke takes Quebec |
English Newfoundland |
Phips |
Treaty of Ryswick |
Francis Nicholson |
Treaty of Utrecht |
War of
Austrian Succession |
Capture of
Louisbourg |
Treaty
of Chapelle |
Halifax |
French
Indian War | Governor
Murray
England was one of the first European states to
support attempts to shed light on the seas to the west. The belief
was that a direct route to China might be discovered and the long
land sea route through Muslim and other foreign lands could be
eliminated. Henry the VII th backed the Italian explorer John Cabot
in 1497. Various attempts were made at settlement and exploration
for the next 150 years but English colonies were only really
established in the 13th colonies. Fishing stations were used in
Newfoundland but the French came and settled in Nova Scotia, PEI,
Newfoundland, New Brunswick and Quebec. As tensions mounted between
France and England in Europe, competition heated up in the Americas.
The English opened up fur trading operations in the 1670's when the
Hudson Bay Company was chartered and slowly began to move North into
Nova Scotia. Inevitably the friction increased as contact become
more and more frequent and the resultant clashes would continue on
and off until 1759 resolved the game with an English victory on the
plains of Abraham.
