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In 1608 Champlain founded what is now Quebec City, one of the earliest permanent settlements, which would become the capital of New France. [55] He took personal administration over the city and its affairs and sent out expeditions to explore the interior. [56] Champlain became the first known European to encounter Lake Champlain in 1609.
Shortly thereafter, Mackenzie's companion, John Finlay, founded the first permanent European settlement in British Columbia, Fort St. John. The North West Company sought further explorations firstly by David Thompson , starting in 1797, and later by Simon Fraser .
French colonists under Samuel de Champlain establish the first permanent European settlement in the future Canada at Port-Royal, founding the colony that would become known as Acadia. [16] 1608: 3 July: Quebec City founded by Champlain, becoming the capital of New France. [17] 1634: 4 July
The Indigenous population at the time of the first European ... of the border with the contiguous United States. [285] Canada is ... which was founded ...
The first official settlement of Canada was Québec, founded by Samuel de Champlain in 1608. [13] [14] The other four colonies within New France were Hudson's Bay to the north, Acadia and Newfoundland to the east, and Louisiana far to the south. [15] [16] Canada became the most developed of
Canada inherited territorial disputes with the United States over Machias Seal Island and North Rock, which remain disputed up to the present. [14] Disputes: July 15, 1870 The United Kingdom transferred most of its remaining land in North America to Canada, with the North-Western Territory and Rupert's Land becoming the North-West Territories.
Nation-building is a long evolutionary process, and in most cases the date of a country's "formation" cannot be objectively determined; e.g., the fact that England and France were sovereign kingdoms on equal footing in the medieval period does not prejudice the fact that England is not now a sovereign state (having passed sovereignty to Great ...
In 1604, the first year-round permanent settlement was founded by Samuel de Champlain at Île-Saint-Croix on Baie Française (Bay of Fundy), which was moved to Port-Royal in 1605. [28] In 1608, Samuel de Champlain founded the city of Québec with 28 men of whom 20 died from lack of food and from scurvy the first winter. [28] [29]