When did christopher columbus discover canada?
The land which was to one day become the nation of Canada has been possessed by native peoples before recorded history. The first outsider since then seems to be the Viking Lief Eriksson who landed upon the shores of what is now known as Baffin Island, Labrador and Newfoundland around the year 1000 AD. The land that was to be Canada, however, was lost again until 1534 when Jacques Cartier of France discovered the St. Lawrence River and called the land around him “Canada”, using an Indian word he picked up from the natives.
