Canada: from the Great British Colony to maple syrup

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There is little written history of Canada prior to the arrival of Europeans, but archaeological evidence tells the story. For thousands of years, the territory of the future State was inhabited by Indian tribes sometimes referred to as “indigenous peoples” of those lands.

Canada is still one of the most amazing territories in the world.

Canada has more lakes than all other countries of the world combined.

20% of all freshwater reserves of planet Earth are in Canada.

Lake Moraine, Canada, Source: twitter.com

The first Europeans to arrive on the shores of Labrador and Newfoundland were the Vikings, the Normans. The Venetian explorer John Cabot and his son Sebastian landed at Cape Bonavista in 1497 on behalf of King Henry VII of England in search of the Northwest Passage. These explorations were the beginning of England’s interest in Canadian territory. Eventually Henry Hudson tried to discover the Northwest Passage and became the first European to explore Hudson Bay in 1610.

Canada became part of the North American colonies of Great Britain, but the War of Independence soon broke out there, leading to the United States of America. The independence fighters of the American colonies saw Canada as a profitable part of their future state.

On July 1, 1867, Canada received the right to form its own government without seceding from the British Empire. 

After World War II, U.S. influence on Canada’s economy and politics increased (while England’s position weakened). Attempts by the Conservative Prime Minister Diefenbaker to pursue a policy independent of the U.S. were unsuccessful. It was not until the second half of the 1960s, with the Liberals Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau in power, that a turn toward an independent policy began to emerge.

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Canada became an independent country only in 1982, after many years of dependence on England, and after political dependence on the United States.  And now the province of Quebec, one of Canada’s most famous territories, accounts for 77% of the world’s maple syrup production.