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When did the first Europeans settlement start in Canada?

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Canadians are taught to peg the symbolic start of Canada's European settlement to 1534, when a French explorer named Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe and entered the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

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