How old is Canada?

Before Canada was the country of Canada (1867), there were the British colonies of Upper and Lower Canada (combined as the United Provinces) and four in the Atlantic provinces today (including Newfoundland, the first overseas British possession in the world!) and the Rupert's land and the Northland controlled more or less by the Hudson's Bay Company.

and just as now, there was the indigenous people. The Metis Nation beginning as soon as first fur trader slept with Native woman, or thereabouts like nine months later!

1867 saw four British colonies come together and soon the Rupert's land and the Northlands joined as well. and soon other colonies.

Europeans here to stay from 1600s.

by late 1700s, fur trading posts in interior as far west as Edmonton (Alberta) and on west coast.

oldest building in Alberta still standing in its original location was built prior to 1867 Confederation.

that is clerk's quarters at Victoria Settlement, Alberta

some 40 years after the clerk's quarters were built, Alberta and Saskatchewan, parts of the NWT, became provinces in 1905, but having been part of Canada since 1870.

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