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Canada Constructed
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I Think About Canadian Prehistory
The following is cut and pasted from information at the UBC site. A little prehistory, as much as we seem to know so far. Funny how the present time is relearning the past.
9000 B.C.
- Native peoples are living along the Eramosa River near what is now Guelph, Ontario.
5200 B.C.
- The Sto:lo people are living alongside the Fraser River near what is now Mission, B.C. (Some say they may have been as early as 9000 B.C.)
5000 B.C.
- Native peoples have spread into what is now Northern Ontario and Southeastern Québec.
2000 B.C.
- Inuit peoples begin to move into what is now the Northwest Territories.
500 B.C.
- Northwest Coast native peoples begin to flourish.
1000
- Leif (the Lucky) Ericsson visits Labrador and L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland.