The history of canada

The history of Canada begins with the arrival of people from the Bering land bridge from Asia invade North America. The precise time that this happened is uncertain, the first traces of human presence date back some 20 000-25 000 years ago. This article deals mainly with the history of the area that coincides with the current Canada.

Arrival of Europeans

Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus discovered the New World, was the Greenland Vikings and later North America itself explored and tried to establish themselves there. Excavations at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, the remains of a Norwegian settlement have been found which dates from around 1000.

For several years after Columbus' first trip was the John Cabot in 1497 the east coast of Canada explored the present and for King Henry VI of England claimed. With his ship the Matthew Cabot sailed along the coast of North America from Labrador south to the Chesapeake Bay. However, it was the French in the 16th century the hinterland of Canada seriously began to explore Jacques Cartier was the first in 1534. France in 1605 founded the first settlements in what is now Port Royal and Quebec City in 1608.