Who had control over canada before britain?
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*Shrugging my furry shoulders* Well of course first came native americans, they spread to both of the American hemispheres. \n\nThe time line runs basically...\nInhabited for millennia by First Nations.\nFirst Nations is a term for ethnicity used in Canada to replace the word "Indian". It refers to the Indigenous peoples of North America located in what is now Canada, and their descendants, who are not Inuit or Métis. The proper terms to refer to the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis collectively is Aboriginal peoples or First peoples or Indigenous peoples, tribes, or nations. A national representative body of the "First Nations" in Canada is the Assembly of First Nations.\n\nBasque exploration\nBasque fishermen (primarily whalers) from southern Europe began fishing the Grand Banks as early as the 15th century. They primarily hunted arctic bowhead and white whales for their blubber (which produced whale oil) and their plates of baleen, used in dressmaking. By the mid-16th century, at least nine fishing outposts had been established on Labrador and Newfoundland. The largest of these settlements was the Red Bay station, with an estimated 900 people. At the height of Basque whaling, about 2000 people were employed each summer. However, the operation had largely collapsed by the early 1600s as the two whale species were hunted to near-extinction and many Basques whaling ships were pressed into service by the Spanish navy.\n\nEarly colonial period: The rise and fall of "New France" (Nouvelle-France) 1604-1763\nIn the 16th and 17th centuries English and French colonists established settlements in eastern Canada largely to support fishing or fur trade. French settlement began with Samuel de Champlain and Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts, first in Acadia in 1604, then Quebec City in 1608.\n\nAs New France was established over an extremely vast expanse of territory, the French had to secure the cooperation of the various amerindian nations, in effect creating a new hybrid civilization which allied Amerindian technology with French values.\n\nOver the next 150 years, Canada and Acadia continued to expand from the heartland of the St Lawrence River into the upper country (pays d'en haut) of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley of North America. Their expansion was opposed by the Wyandot (Hurons), the Iroquois, and more significantly the British, who waged a series of wars (French and Indian Wars) that cost France first Acadia, then Canada. Under British rule, Acadians were expelled in 1755. France was defeated at Louisburg in 1758 and at the decisive Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Quebec City in 1759. By the Treaty of Paris in 1763, France kept its Caribbean island colonies but lost almost all of its North American colonies to Britain and Spain. Of its northern possessions, all that was retained were the tiny fishing outposts of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. Subsequently, only the French élite was repatriated, leaving the peasants at the mercy of the British conquerors, who tolerated the Canadians' Roman Catholic faith under the terms of the treaty.\n\nBritish imperial control 1763-1849\nBritish North America (BNA) was reduced with the American Revolution to the colonies of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Quebec. The American Revolution was in part triggered by the necessity of accommodating 60,000 Catholic Francophones. To accommodate the many American Loyalists who were persecuted and expelled from the United States during and after the revolution, Britain created in 1784 the province of New Brunswick and, in 1791, divided Quebec into two provinces: Lower Canada and Upper Canada.\n\nBritish colonies were drawn into the War of 1812 between Britain and the United States, one of the effects of which was the first rise of a sense of nationalism amongst the British North American population. Subsequent disputes that arose between BNA and the U.S. over trade, fishing, and boundari
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King. Before the Magna Carta screwed it all up. :)
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Long before Europeans colonized the area now known as Michigan, many Native American tribes resided there.  The most populous of these tribes was the Algonquian (Ottawa, Anishnabe, Chippewa, & Pottawatomi)\n\n"Michigan was explored and settled by French voyageurs in the 17th century" (1622 - Etienne Brule's expedition)\n\n"The 1st European settlement was made in 1641" (Jacques Marquette established Sault Sainte-Marie here in 1668)
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Got this e-mail today.  This is a good read - funny how it took someone in England to put it into words...\n\nSunday Telegraph Article\nFrom today's UK wires: Salute to a brave and modest nation\nKevin Myers, The Sunday Telegraph\n\n    LONDON - Until the deaths last week of four Canadian soldiers accidentally killed by a U.S. warplane in Afghanistan, probably almost no one outside their home country had been aware that Canadian troops were deployed in the region.  And as always, Canada will now bury its dead, just as the rest of the world as always will forget its sacrifice, just as it always forgets nearly everything Canada ever does.\n\n    It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance. A fire breaks out, she risks life and limb to rescue her fellow dance-goers, and suffers serious injuries.  But when the hall is repaired and the dancing resumes, there is Canada, the wallflower still, while those she once helped glamorously cavort across the floor, blithely neglecting her yet again.\n \n    That is the price Canada pays for sharing the North American continent with the United States, and for being a selfless friend of Britain in two global conflicts. For much of the 20th century, Canada was torn in two different directions: It seemed to be a part of the old world, yet had an  address in the new one, and that divided identity ensured that it never fully got the gratitude it deserved.\n \n    Yet its purely voluntary contribution to the cause of freedom in two world wars was perhaps the greatest of any democracy. Almost 10% of Canada's entire population of seven million people served in the armed forces during the First World War, and nearly 60,000 died. The great Allied victories of 1918 were spearheaded by Canadian troops, perhaps the most capable soldiers in the entire British order of battle.\n \n    Canada was repaid for its enormous sacrifice by downright neglect, its unique contribution to victory being absorbed into the popular Memory as somehow or other the work of the "British." \n\n     The Second World War provided a re-run. The Canadian navy began the war with a half dozen vessels, and ended up policing nearly half of the Atlantic against U-boat attack. More than 120 Canadian warships participated in the Normandy landings, during which 15,000 Canadian soldiers went ashore on D-Day alone. Canada finished the war with the third-largest navy and  the fourth-largest air force in the world.\n\n    The world thanked Canada with the same sublime indifference as it had the previous time. Canadian participation in the war was acknowledged in film only if it was necessary to give an American actor a part in a campaign in which the United States had clearly not participated - a touching scrupulousness which, of ourse, Hollywood has since abandoned, as it has any notion of a separate Canadian identity.\n\n    So it is a general rule that actors and filmmakers arriving in Hollywood keep their nationality - unless, that is, they are Canadian. Thus Mary Pickford, Walter Huston, Donald Sutherland, Michael J. Fox, William Shatner, Norman Jewison, David Cronenberg, Alex Trebek, Art Linkletter and Dan Aykroyd have in the popular perception become American, and Christopher Plummer, British. It is as if, in the very act of becoming famous, a Canadian ceases to be Canadian, unless she is Margaret Atwood, who is as unshakably Canadian as a moose, or Celine Dion, for whom Canada has proved quite unable to find any takers.\n\n    Moreover, Canada is every bit as querulously alert to the achievements of its sons and daughters as the rest of the world is completely unaware of them. The Canadians proudly say of themselves - and are unheard by anyone else - that 1
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Asian peoples who later formed the native american tribes were the first.  hundreds of years later the vikings (anglo saxons) also arrived to explore the Americas.  Hundreds of years after that in 1492, A spanish Explorer Christopher Columbus, was paid by the Queen of Portugal to find a new route to India.  He choose to sail west rather than east and landed in what is now South America.  He then went on to India.  After Columbus returned to Portugal, he reported what he found to the Queen.  After the news of his adventures spread Spain and Portugal both began sending expiditions to the Americas and formed a few colonies in South and Central America.  \n\nIn the late 16th Century, France and Britain were exploring North America and Britain formed the James town settlement.  The first British Colony in the Americas.  France was also sending convicts to work the land in eastern Canada.  \n\nDuring the 17th century, many British and a few Dutch groups came to the New World for religious freedom.  By the early 18th century young British men were braving the new world in hopes of making their fortunes and some adventurous intellectuals also made the journey.  \n\nIt was not until the 19th century that significant numbers of non-Brits (Eastern Europeans, Italians, Germans, etc.) came to the United States.
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Canada : $1,665,576,000\nBritish Empire : 908,371 souls including Canadians
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Canada... They're defenseless... And they have delicious bacon!!!
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Greek empire of Alexander the Great, before the British Empire.
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Canada did not struggle for freedom.  Canada chooses to keep its ties to its British roots.  We fought no battles against Britain, nor did we want to.  Canada and Britain have fought side-by-side in two world wars.  We are as free as any country, with our own government, and a Governor General who represents our Queen on state occasions.  Our history is very different from that of the USA.
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The country in question is called the United States of America.  \nIn the beginning, the English colonists overthrew the authority of the king. This event was and continues to be called the American Revolution.  From that era, people here referred to themselves\nAmericans.  Canada became a country later and it had less as self-identification of American. The same goes for Mexico.\n\nAmericans are from he United States and there is some ambiguity in naming between American or of the United States.  \nIn general, the formal name will be the United States Marines, but they are also called American.  \n\nThe name American is not to be grandiose.  It started as the national self-identification of the colonists as they became citizens at the start of the new country.
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I must tell you that I had no idea that Canadians had a different religious culture. Now, I'm a bit confused: which country assigns a higher importance to religion? America or Canada? And what do you mean by "force"?
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countries who were british colonies and who are somehow related to england.like india who british conquered 1050 years ago.
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I'm glad that someone else has realized this.  It's probably for being first a colony dependent upon Great Britain and then even though nominally independent, having to live beside the US.\n\nCanada is SO politically correct that the Supreme court has just authorized 8-0 the wearing of a Kirpan, a ceremonial sword by elementary and high school students.  Canada is so scared of injurying the sensibilities of its large immigrant population that anything goes.  Pretty well any religious practice is accepted in Canada despite secular beliefs.  Another example in Polygamy for a Mormon offshoot in Boutiful BC.  Canadians don't want to insult anyone not white or coming from a country other than Canada or Western Europe.\n\nAny complaint by any white Canadian is quickly shut down by screams of "Racism!!!"
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would canada count?\n\nwas a colony at one time
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Correct ... there were already lots of people in North America when Columbus got here, including the Inuit who probably crossed the Bering Sea from Asia on the ice bridge thousands of years before Columbus.
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What was once known as GREAT BRITAIN
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The above answer is true, but does not fully answer your question.\n\nIn Canada, the federal Conservative part lead by Stephen Harper just tool power from the Liberals who had been in power for twelve years.