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.