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CitizenNow · Citizenship test cheat sheet
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Key dates
| 1215 | Magna Carta, the Great Charter of Freedoms, was signed in England — the root of Canadian freedoms and the rule of law. |
| 1497 | John Cabot, an Italian sailing for England, reached Newfoundland or Cape Breton and was the first to map Canada’s Atlantic coast. |
| 1534 | Jacques Cartier made the first of his three voyages across the Atlantic and claimed the land for King Francis I of France. |
| 1604 | Pierre de Monts and Samuel de Champlain founded the first European settlement north of Florida, on St. Croix Island, then at Port-Royal in Acadia. |
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