But Canadian History started long before when the first American Indians arrived on the American Continent from Asia. They lived for hundreds of years before Erik the Red and the boys, "discovered" Greenland and latter, the Canadian Maritimes. They left and nothing happened really until 1497 when an Italian guy working for the Brits, called Giovanni Cabotto or John Cabot, came to the Shores of either Nova Scotia or Newfoundland. He Claimed the land for the British Crown but then left afterwards leaving no one there to colonise the Country although fishermen from Brittany, came to the waters of Newfoundland.
In 1534, Jacques Cartier, a French dude, founded a Colony for the King of France, Francis the 1st (or Francois 1er). This was the beginning of New France and Acadia. Acadia was the Maritime Provinces and New France was Canada and Louisiana.
Anyway, As always there was rivalry between the English in New England and the French in New France (The Acadians were Neutral). And there were many battles including one where Washington's troops failed to destroy a French settlement in the Ohio valley. But that was nothing in a massacre that followed when the real Brits (from Britain, as opposed to the Brits from the Colonies) who didn't know anything about the Canadian Wilderness) came to attack the same fort Washington had. They started beating the drum trough the forest. Now, Anyone at the time who was born or lived in the North American Continent would know that that was a mistake because the Indians hid in the forest. It was a Slaughter. Only a part of the British Army sent to attack the fort was spared and that because of future American President George Washington.
In 1713, France lost Nova Scotia and the territory near Hudson Bay. Now New France was between two English Territories. The French Rule Ended in 1963 with the signing of the Utrecht treaty. Canada was British. Louisiana was Spanish.
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