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1497
Cabot claims Newfoundland as British territory
1713
Acadie ceded to Britain
1749
Halifax founded
1758
Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island captured by Britain
1759
British defeat French and capture Quebec
1763
Canada becomes a British possession
1867
British North America Act
1924
Modern Foreign Language Study
1939
'Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada' published
1946
Universite Laval, Quebec installs language lab.
1949
Newfoundland unified with Canada
1964
3rd Commonwealth Education Conference
1965
1st French immersion kindergarten class started in Canada
1967
'Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles'
1967
International Centre for Research on Bilingualism
1967
Report of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism
1968
Modern Language Centre of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
1968
Hall-Dennis Report
1969
Official Languages Act
1972
Gardner & Lambert's study of bilingualism in French Canada
1973
'A Concise Dictionary of Canadianisms'
1977
Bill 101 in Canada
1982
Dictionary of Newfoundland English
1988
Dictionary of Prince Edward Island