How is it after all these years of being Canadian it never occurred to me how audacious it was for the French and English to colonize Canada?
Seriously.
How is it?
My ancestors sailed in on their ships. They traded with the people who lived here. They accepted their help so they didn't die of scurvy and exposure and starvation. And then they said to themselves, this is pretty nice here. We should bring all our friends over.
Or was it more of a gradual thing. The land seemed sparsely settled. A lot of it not settled at all, not like their overcrowded homelands. Why not expand? The native people are friendly. They don't mind.
Or what?
What was going through their heads?
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