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Canada was created as a country in 1867. (Confederation),
However Europeans have been living in the country since 1000 CE and had French and English populations since the 1500's and First Nations people were here for at least 12,000 years earlier than that.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 13y agoThe land which was to one day become the nation of Canada has been possessed by native peoples before recorded history. The first outsider since then seems to be the Viking Lief Eriksson who landed upon the shores of what is now known as Baffin Island, Labrador and Newfoundland around the year 1000 AD. The land that was to be Canada, however, was lost again until 1534 when Jacques Cartier of France discovered the St. Lawrence River and called the land around him "Canada", using an First Nations word he picked up from the First Nations. "Canada" was originally "Kanada" which was pronounced as "Kan-na-da".
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