History of Canada
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.
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Hudson's Bay Company
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.
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Acadia, (French: Acadie ), a former French colony along the Atlantic coast of North America.
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Athabaska, the name of a former district in Canada, created within the original Northwest Territories in 1882.
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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.
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New France, the name of Canada until 1763, when the territory was ceded to Great Britain by France.
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North West Company, an early Canadian fur-trading partnership. Its members explored much of the Canadian and United States Northwest.
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Quebec Act, legislation passed by the British Parliament in 1774 for governing Canada, at that time called the Province of Quebec.
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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.
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Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1842, an agreement that settled the long-disputed boundary between Maine and New Brunswick, Canada.
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