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Toronto, Canada

A little history Canada’s history is a rich tapestry of cultures. Thousands of years before Europeans landed on Canada’s shores, indigenous groups including the Acadia, Iroquois and Cree, made Canada their home. Inuit aboriginals also spread into Arctic Canada about a thousand years ago. Today, indigenous Indian communities in Canada are widely called the ‘First Nations’. England became aware of Newfoundland in 1497 when an Italian-born navigator John Cabot sailed from Bristol to the coast of North American. Cabot claimed Newfoundland for the English King, Henry VII but it was only in 1583 that it was declared an English colony. In 1534, the French explorer Jacques Cartier claimed the shores of the Gulf of St Lawrence for France. In the 1600’s a fierce rivalry between the French, English and Dutch sprang up around the lucrative fur trade. Their rivalry exploited existing rivalries among the indigenous Indian nations. Read the rest of this entry »