It is generally believed that the ancestors of the Indians and the Inuit (Eskimos) migrated to North America across a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska. See more »

Hudson's Bay Company, a Canadian retailing corporation. It is one of the oldest continuously operating commercial enterprises in the world, and its 325-year history is inseparable from that of the exploration of British North America and the growth of Canada. See more »

Acadia, (French: Acadie), a former French colony along the Atlantic coast of North America. See more »

VIA Rail Canada is a train service that was built to mirror Amtrak's system. Like the United States, the Canadian railroad was faced with many of the same problems that began to plague the Learn more about the VIA Rail Canada railroad system. See more »

Athabaska, the name of a former district in Canada, created within the original Northwest Territories in 1882. See more »

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), a Canadian political party. It was founded in 1932 by representatives from farm, labor, and socialist groups and adopted a socialistic program patterned after that of the British Labour Party. See more »

New France, the name of Canada until 1763, when the territory was ceded to Great Britain by France. See more »

North West Company, an early Canadian fur-trading partnership. Its members explored much of the Canadian and United States Northwest. See more »

Quebec Act, legislation passed by the British Parliament in 1774 for governing Canada, at that time called the Province of Quebec. See more »

Ungava, a region of northern Quebec, Canada. Ungava is bounded on the north by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay, on the east by Labrador, and on the west by Hudson Bay. See more »