CANADA HISTORY
With regards to the history of the Native People of Canada which is based only on archeological evidence as there is no Pre-European written records, is that these people occupied Canada prior to its colonization by the Europeans. Remains of broken stone tools, discarded food bones and vague traces of dwellings are the only reliable evidence.
The Native people involved in ranching, rodeo and industries involving to this lifestyle and transited to becoming cowboys, ranchers and rodeo participants. Throughout the world the watercraft developed by Canada’s First People are respected and admired throughout the world for their performance and beauty.
The first people to inhabit North Eastern America were the aboriginal people. As the ice masses melted and receded they began to migrate, slowly moving to the south and east and faced the challenges in the new environment.
The North is cold and barren; however, the West Coast is rich and bountiful with streams and rivers with salmons and also lush rainforests. The East Coast produced a large number of fish along the Grand Banks. The prairies had huge herds of buffalos and long stretches of grasslands. There were forests, food and good land in South Central Canada and St Lawrence River valley which produced plentiful crop for the people.
The people were diverse, different and culturally unique because the land became rich and productive.
The increase in the population of Canada has been steady and this has been reflected by a variety of birth dates, immigration numbers and other social and political fluctuations.
There are many historical places in Canada e.g.:
- The Sheffield Park Black History and Cultural Museum which is on the shores of the Georgian Bay, where you learn about pioneer families who had lived in the Collingwood area.
- The North Buxton Raleigh Township Centennial Museum is located on the site of Elgin settlement where black fugitives fled to after escaping slavery in the United States.
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin is another place of historical significance in Ontario. It is located in the Dawn settlement, Dresden.
- The North American Black Historical Museum & Cultural Centre is in Amherstburg, Ontario, where there is a large room exhibiting the profiles of Black inventors on the wall.
- Negro Creek Road is where Negro Pioneers and their descendants first settled. It is Holland Township.
- The Necropolis Cemetery located in Cabbagetown, downtown Toronto is the resting place of Lucie and Thornton Blackburn former slaves from Kentucky.
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