Canada started when the French colonized Port Royal in 1605 and Quebec City in 1608.  The English established a fishing outpost in Newfoundland shortly afterwards in 1610 and settled the Thirteen Colonies.  The colonies and the French settlements would war four times between 1689 and 1763.  The Treaty of Paris gave Britain the New France colonies in 1763 after the Seven Years War.  The British established the province of Quebec in 1763 and restricted the language and religion of the French Canadians. Eventually, to avoid conflict, the Quebec Act of 1774 extended the territory of Quebec to the Great Lakes and the Ohio Valley, and restored the religious and lingual rights of the Canadians. This angered the colonists of the American colonies, helping to spark the American Revolution in 1775.
	After the American Revolution, the Treaty of Paris in 1783 gives the United States all land south of the Great Lakes.  Time passed, and eventually the United States and Canada teamed up to fight the British Empire in the War of 1812. Canada soon gets divided into two parts, the French “Lower Canada” and the English “Upper Canada”. The Act of Union in 1840 unites the two sections of Canada and helps to form a responsible government.
	In 1914, Canada automatically joined the First World War with Britain, and the Canadian Armed Forces were sent to the Western Front. After the war, Canada joined the League of Nations separately from Britain, its first act separately from Britain, and the Statue of Westminster in 1931 confirmed Canada’s independence. In 1939, Canada joined World War II, three days after Britain. The Canadian Army played a major role in many battles, including the Battle of the Atlantic and the Allied Invasion of Italy.
	After the war, Newfoundland joined the confederation in 1949. Canada became officially bilingual in 1969 with the Official Languages Act. Later, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau formed a Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982.