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First Nations and Inuit

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15 000 - 20 000
years ago		 First Nations people and Inuit begin migrating to North America
1492 Columbus reaches West Indies
1497 Cabot reaches "new found land"
1608 First permanent settlement in New France, European diseases begin to spread

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