Short+History

Short History ﻿  The native tribes were Inuit, Innu, Beothuk, Micmac, and Malecite groups. The first Europeans who were likely vikings from Greenland and they arrived in canada at 1000 AD. English, French, and Basque fishermen came to Canada's Atlantic coast in the 1500s. French colonists arrived in the 1600s and settled along the Saint Lawrence River in the territory they called new france. The British and the French fought over the territory through the 1600s until 1763 when the treaty of paris gave Britain control over new France which was renamed Quebec. Around the same time British loyalists who had left the thirteen colonies after the American Revolution also started settling in Canada. Britain has had no power over Canada sinse 1982. A chart of rights and freedom was istablished in 1882 giving all Canadians fundamental human rights.