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Every person walking across the Bering Land Bridge and down the coast discovered what is today Canada, as did the many Inuit and those traveling along the northern coast.
Lief the Lucky landed in what is today Baffin Island and created a permanent settlement in Newfoundland, well permanent for a decade or so.
Using information from Icelandic Saga's and that of Christopher Columbus, John Cabot showed up on our Eastern Shores 500 years later, the first of many more to discover us and land on our east coast.
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EzraCanada was first discovered in prehistoric times by the ancestors of the First Nations.
Current theory is that humans crossed over from Asia to North America on foot, via what has been called a "land bridge." This "land bridge" occurred during the last Ice Age, when sea levels dropped several hundred feet, thereby exposing the sea bed of the Bering Strait, between Alaska and Russia.
While it is quite possible that prehistoric people also crossed the Bering Strait in some form of boat, there is no hard evidence available to support that theory.
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What was Canada called in 1534?
Canada, as we know it today, did not exist as a political entity when Jacques Cartier explored the Gulf of St Lawrence in 1534.
Which region of Canada was gold discovered in 1896?
Klondike region
What European explorers came to Canada?
It was lived on by Aboriginals, but the Europeans discovered it with the Aboriginals living on it. Christopher Columbus discovered it and thought it was India at first and called the Aboriginals 'Indians'.
What country first discovered the new world?
If you look at what history teaches it was the Spanish. Though they have found evidence that the vikings were in Canada before the Spanish.
Who were the first immigrants to Canada?
If you count the first settler, then it will be the ancestor of aboriginal Canadians (Paleo-Indians / Paleoamericans) probably as early as 20`000 year ago. If that doesn't count, then the Inuits are believed to have arrived around year 1000 from Alaska. Then you have the French starting at 1534 and the British starting at 1583.
