Timeline of First Nations history

The history of First Nations is a prehistory and history of present-day Canada's peoples from the earliest times to the present with a focus on First Nations. The pre-history settlement of the Americas is subject of ongoing debate as First Nations oral history, combined with new methodologies and technologies used by archaeologists, linguists, and other researchers, produce new and sometimes conflicting, evidence. The 1996 Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal People described four stages in Canadian history that overlap and occur at different times in different regions: 1) Pre-contact – Different Worlds – Contact; 2) Early Colonies (1500–1763); 3) Displacement and Assimilation (1764–1969); and 4) Renewal to Constitutional Entrenchment (2018).

Pre-contact

75,000–15,000 BP

50,000 BP

40,000 BP

30,000–20,000 BP

Paleo-Indians period

12,000 BP

11,000 BP

10,500 BP

10,000 BP

9,700 BP

9,000 BP

8,500 BP

8,250 BP

8,000 BP

6,800 BP

6,000 BP

5,000 BP

4,500 BP

4,300 BP

4,000 BP

3,000 BP

2,400 BP

1000 BP

951 BP

950 BP - 450 BP

450 BP

1400s

Early Colonies (1500–1763)

Displacement and Assimilation (1764–1969)

Renewal to Constitutional Entrenchment (1969+)

See also 

 Aboriginal peoples in Canada
 First Nations
 Index of Aboriginal Canadian-related articles
 Settlement of the Americas

Notes

References

Further reading 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
Category:History of indigenous peoples of North America
Category:Hunter-gatherers of Canada
First Nations
Category:Anishinaabe culture