|
Year |
History |
| 1670 |
Hudson Bay Company chartered |
| 1697 |
The Cree, having guns received from traders, drove the Chipewyan north and
east of their aboriginal territories |
| 1700 |
Chipewyan became middlemen beween traders and tribes to the south |
| 1715 |
Churchill and 150 Cree visited to make peace and
begin trade |
| 1717 |
Churchill post established |
| 1718 |
Chipewyan were living on Peace River, but after
Cree obtained guns and drove Slaveys tribe from Slave River, the Chipewyan
drove off Cree and stayed on Slave River |
| 1730 |
Approximate date Alberta Indians acquired horses and guns |
| 1769 |
Visited by Hearne |
| 1784 |
Smallpox epidemic killed 90% of Chipewyans |
| 1795 |
Edmonton House was built on the Upper Saskatchewan River |
| 1798 |
Fort Chipewyan was relocated to its present site on the northwest shore of
Lake Atabasca |
| 1804 |
David Thompson visited Fort Chipewyan to tie in his map of the Great North
West |
| 1805 |
Simon Fraser visited Fort Chipewyan on his way to the Pacific Ocean |
| 1841 |
Reverand James Evans, a Methodist, was the first missionary to visit Fort
Chipewyan |
| 1847 |
Father Alexander Tache, o.m.i., was the First Roman Catholic missionary to
vist Fort Chipewyan, on his second visit in 1848 he chose the site for the
Catholic mission |
| 1858 |
Catholic mission established by Fr. Henry Farraud |
| 1881 |
Smallpox epidemic |
| 1887 |
The Great Famine |
| 1897 |
Indian Treaty No. 8 was signed by Alexander Laviolette for the Chipewyan |
| 1920 |
Spanish Flu killed many people in Fort Chipewyan, mass graves were dug
where the Hudson's Bay Store now stands. |
| 1948 |
Measles epidemic |
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