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45°24′N 75°40′W / 45.4°N 75.667°W / 45.4; -75.667Largest cityTorontoOfficial languagesEnglish and
FrenchRecognised regional languagesInuktitut,
Inuinnaqtun,
Cree,
Dëne Sųłiné,
Gwich’in,
Inuvialuktun,
Slavey and
Tłįchǫ Yatiì[1]Ethnic groups 80.0% White/
European (
English,
French,
Scottish,
Irish,
German, others)
[2]
4.0%
South Asian
3.9%
Chinese
3.8%
Aboriginal
3.3%
Other Asian
2.5%
Black/African
2.5% Others
[3]
The land occupied by Canada was inhabited for millennia by various groups of
aboriginal people. Beginning in the late 15th century,
British and
French expeditions explored, and later settled along, the Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of
its colonies in North America in 1763 after the
Seven Years' War. In 1867, with the union of three
British North American colonies through
Confederation, Canada was formed as a
federal dominion of four provinces.
[8][9][10] This began an
accretion of additional provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy from the United Kingdom, highlighted by the
Statute of Westminster in 1931 and culminating in the
Canada Act in 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British parliament.
Taken from wikipedia