In what year did the French and the Iroquois make peace?

The answer is one of the cleanest dates in Discover Canada's account of New France: The French and the Iroquois made peace in 1701. The number to memorise is 1701. None of the other answer choices appears in Discover Canada in connection with this peace.

To make sense of why 1701 matters, it helps to picture the century that came before. Discover Canada records that Champlain built a fortress at what is now Québec City in 1608 and immediately allied the colony with "the Algonquin, Montagnais and Huron, historic enemies of the Iroquois." The guide then describes the Iroquois as a confederation of five (later six) First Nations who battled with the French settlements for a century. From 1608 to 1701 is roughly 93 years — close enough that Discover Canada simply calls it "a century".

So the peace of 1701 closes the founding-era of New France's longest sustained conflict with a neighbouring people. It does not, however, end New France itself: the colony continued for another half-century, with the British and the French battling for control of North America in the 1700s, and the British finally defeating the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759. The 1701 peace is therefore a turning point inside the New France period, not its end.

The 1701 date is one of the few precisely-dated peace agreements in Discover Canada's early-history section, alongside dates like 1604 (first European settlement north of Florida), 1608 (Champlain's fortress) and 1670 (the Hudson's Bay Company charter). The test is checking that new citizens can pin the right year to the right event in this dense early-colonial timeline.

The peace also matters thematically. Discover Canada notes that "Aboriginals and Europeans formed strong economic, religious and military bonds in the first 200 years of coexistence which laid the foundations of Canada." The Iroquois–French peace is one of the most concrete examples of that statement — a long, intense Indigenous-European conflict ending in a negotiated settlement rather than total defeat for either side.