Kanada ühiskond ja kultuur/Society and Culture of Canada
It is the
only geo-political region of Canada that is not connected to the rest of North America by highway. Nunavut is
both the least populous and the largest in area of the provinces and territories of Canada. One of the most remote,
sparsely settled regions in the world, it has a population of 31,906, mostly Inuit.
8. European discoverers of Canada (Irish (?), Viking, British, French).
St Brendan the Navigator, an Irish monk, is told to have taken a seven-year yoyage in the 6th century across the
North Atlantic Ocean and he could have reached Canada. However, as far as we know, the first white men to
discover the Atlantic seaboard of North America were the Norsemen from Greenland about 1000 AD. On 20 May
in 1497 an Italian named John Cabot sailed west from Bristol in England, hoping to reach Kathay. He sighted land
on 24 June rediscovered of Canada's eastern shores and landed somewhere near Newfoundland, Maine or Cape
Breton Island
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