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DISCOVER A Brief History

A B R I E F 1
A BRIEF
HISTORY
H I S TO R Y

Canada, a country that’s been home to the First Nations for thousands of years,
stands as a beacon of tolerance and multiculturalism. In the beginning, however,
this vast land was a struggle for the Europeans to colonize and was fought
over by the English and French for centuries.

Early Survival 1 Map of Saint Lawrence
Long before the first Europeans crossed the Atlantic, the River, dated 1632.
landscape we now know as Canada was inhabited by various 2 Painting of Algonquins
tribes of hunters. These first indigenous settlers developed the constructing a wigwam.
skills and culture required to survive the rigors of life in Canada.
Despite their disparate lifestyles, the tribes all shared in a common 3 Jacques Cartier
belief: that they were part of nature and not its masters. meeting with a First
Nations tribe in 1535.
The English Invasion 4 Native Americans
exchanging furs for
The first successful attempt to colonize Canada was made in goods at Hudson Bay.
1497, by Italian navigator Giovanni Caboto who landed on the

Timeline of events
30,000- 9,000 BC 1497
10,000 BC Aboriginal Peoples are living The first voyage to
Nomadic hunters arrive at least as far south as the North America by
in North America across Eramosa River near what is Giovanni Caboto
a land bridge from Asia now Guelph, Ontario
AD 986
AD 986 Thorfinn Karlsefni
Bjarni Herjolfsson, a Viking starts a trading
sailing from Iceland to colony in Labrador,
Greenland, is the first European but it is abandoned
to see the coastline of Labrador two years later
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