Canada 150!
Celebrate Canada with 150 facts, eh!
History
1. Te earliest evidence of human ac- tivity was confirmed through the dis- covery of 20,000-year-old stone tools and animal bones in caves on Bluefish River, Northern Yukon.
2. Indigenous people were actively liv- ing on what would become Canada from approximately 500 BC. Tey had established trading routes and com- munities, each with their own culture and customs.
3. In AD 1000 the east coast of Can- ada was settled by Vikings. Archaeo- logical evidence of the settlement was found at L'anse aux Meadows, New- foundland.
4. ‘Kanata’ is the Iroquois word for vil- lage. French explorer Jacques Cartier mistook his invitation to the village as the name of the country.
5. Te Hudson’s Bay Company was formed on May 2, 1670 when King Charles II granted the company per- mission for a fur trade monopoly on all lands whose waters drained into the Hudson Bay. (A questionable permis- sion since the land was not his to give.)
6. Te Hudson’s Bay Company was named after explorer Henry Hudson who first sailed the bay in 1610.
7. HBC or “Te Bay” is the old- est commercial corporation in North America and one of the oldest in the world.
8. Te Constitution Act which in- cludes the British North America Act and Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was signed by Queen Eliza- beth II and Prime Minister Right Honourable Pierre Trudeau in 1982.
9. 1867 is the year of Canada’s confed- eration. At the time only Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec formed the Dominion of Canada.
10. Manitoba and the Northwest Ter- ritories joined a couple years later, on July 15, 1870. Te following year Brit- ish Columbia joined (1871) followed by Prince Edward Island in 1873 and the Yukon in 1898. Alberta and Sas-
Jasper National Park.
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