For centuries, European explorers sought a navigable passage as a possible trade route to Asia. An ice-bound northern route was discovered in 1850 by the Irish explorer Robert McClure.
The autonomous Dominion of Canada, a confederation of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the future provinces of Ontario and Quebec, was officially recognized by Great Britain with the passage of the British North America Act.
The Iroquois Confederacy or Haudenosaunee is believed to have been founded by the Peacemaker in 1142 or 1451 C.E., bringing together five distinct nations in the southern Great Lakes area into “The Great League of Peace”.
The Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting Inuit Nunangat, the regions of Greenland, Canada, and Alaska
The Thule Tradition lasted from about 200 B.C.E. to 1600 C.E. around the Bering Strait. The Thule people being the prehistoric ancestors of the Inuit who now live in Northern Labrador.
The Dorset was a Paleo-Eskimo culture, lasting from 500 B.C.E. to between 1000 and 1500 C.E., that followed the Pre-Dorset and preceded the Inuit in the Arctic of North America.
The first traces of people living in the Fraser Valley date from 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. The Sto:lo called this area, their traditional territory, S’ólh Téméxw were highly mobile hunter-gatherers.
Bluefish Caves is an archaeological site in Yukon, Canada from which a specimen of allegedly human-worked mammoth bone has been radiocarbon dated to 24,000 years before present, earlier than the generally accepted age for habitation of the New World.
