ABSTRACT
Historically, Canada is a land of immigrants. Sprawling 6,000 km from east to west and encompassing seven time zones, Canada has attracted settlers ever since, as scholars speculate, aboriginal peoples traversed the land bridge from Asia millennia ago. The earliest inhabitants, aboriginals, or as they call themselves, the First Nations, over thousands of years evolved a variety of linguistic and cultural groups. However, it was the coming of the Europeans in the 16th century that initiated the process of intercultural interaction that characterizes the Canadian confederation in the 1990s.
