logo

Video encyclopedia

Canada

3:57

Ryan Reynolds answers 10 questions about Canada 🇨🇦

3:08

Canada: People show discontent against Trudeau government | Latest International News | WION

1:56

Canada Day celebrations and protests as nation’s capital turns red, white

2:56

Convoy protesters return to Ottawa for Canada Day

3:04

Lauv - Canada (feat. Alessia Cara) [Official Visualizer]

Canada was a French colony within New France first claimed in the name of the King of France in 1535 during the second voyage of Jacques Cartier. The word "Canada" at this point referred to the territory along the Saint Lawrence River, then known as the Canada river, from Grosse Island in the east to a point between Quebec and Three Rivers, although this territory had greatly expanded by 1600. French explorations continued "unto the Countreys of Canada, Hochelaga, and Saguenay" before any permanent settlements were established. Even though a permanent trading post and habitation was established at Tadoussac in 1600, at the confluence of the Saguenay and Saint Lawrence rivers, it was under a trade monopoly and thus not constituted as an official French colonial settlement.
    • ''Pays d'en Haut'' 

    • LegacyÂ