Jacques Cartier was the first European voyager to name Canada as Canada. While sailing across the Atlantic between 1534 and 1542, he heard captured guides speak the word “Kanata,” which means village in the Iroquoian dialect.

When Canada finally gained its country’s freedom in 1867, John Macdonald, a Scottish lawyer, became the first prime minister of Canada. He is known as the governing figure of the Canadian Federation.

Tecumseh, born in 1768 in south-central Ohio, is the leader and Shawnee chief of the first nation confederacy. Tecumseh is also the military leader in the war of 1812.

The great depression in Canada left millions of Canadian people jobless and starving. It caused a great economic and social shock to the country’s market. The great depression hit Canada the worst as its chief bartering partners, the United States and Britain, were also severely affected.

In 1916, Manitoba granted women the freedom to vote and operate the provincial office after Nellie McClungfoughtt for woman’s rights.

Canada became part of the War of 1812 as a colony of Great Britain. It was a war created by the military dispute between the United States and Great Britain.

The first European village in Canada was established in the north of Florida by Pierre de Monts and Samuel de Champlain, both French explorers. After settling French empires in Maine and Nova Scotia, Champlain constructed a bastion in Quebec in 1608.

Before the first Europeans set foot in Canada, all regions were occupied by Indians. The Aboriginal group sustained their needs by hunting, raising crops, and preserving fish by drying and smoking.

In 1497, John Cabot was the first European to form a map of Canada's east coast. When he set foot on Cape Breton Island in 1497, he claimed it for England and called it Newfoundland.

On July 1, 1867, Canada finally received full independence by joining the three separate colonies of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick into sole British federation.