单选题
The Canadian people are made up of different national races. The first
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settlers of the country were the Indians.
It was said that the Indians entered this continent
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the Bering Strait and Sea from eastern Asia at most 10, 000 years
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. When Europeans first
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the country. Indians were living in most of the areas
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forests. There were only
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Indians in the provinces near the Atlantic Ocean.
The second group of people to enter Canada
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the Eskimos. They
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the Bering Strait from Asia less than 3, 000 years ago. There are few
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of their early movements.
The first white settlers in Canada were the
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. They came in greatest
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to Quebec, but also to Nova Scotia,
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they cleared farms on the southern side of the Bay of Fundy. The French built their castles at Quebec City, and cleared farms out of the forests in the area
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the time of the British conquest(征服) in 1763, there had been about 60, 000 Frenchmen in Canada,
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chiefly between Quebec and Montreal. There were not many British in Canada
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American Revolution drove large numbers northward.
Throughout the 19
th
century,
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British people came to Canada. The descendants(后代)of these people
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England, Scotland, and Ireland now make
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about half of the population. Around the
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of the century people came in increasing numbers from Europe and the largest numbers came
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Central and Eastern Europe, such as Germans, Czechs, Poles, Rumanians, and Ukrainians.