European Colonization Of Canada's Indigenous People

Even though the first colony of European explorers (in the 11th century) was short lived, this marked the very beginning of a tremendous change in the lives of the Canada’s Indigenous people for many generations to come. A change that may not have been within the reach of their imagination; one that resulted into a cultural genocide. This is a brief timeline of the history of how the Europeans colonized and took over the land and territories from the Indigenous people: