BCs in Canada

BCs in Canada

See also: ADs in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.

Events

c. 40,000-30,000 BC: Prehistoric hunters migrate from Asia across the Bering strait land bridge to settle North America.

c. 9,000 BC: Native peoples are living along the Eramosa River near what is now Guelph, Ontario.

8,000 BC: Ice Age ending. Rising waters cover Bering land bridge.

5200 BC: The Sto:lo people are living alongside the Fraser River near what is now Mission, B.C (Some say they may have been as early as 9000 B.C.)

5000 BC: Native peoples have spread into what is now Northern Ontario and Southeastern Quebec.

c. 3500 BC: In Canada's southwest Yukon, the beaver tooth gouge comes into use. It becomes an important tool for woodworking in the subarctic area.

c. 2700 BC: Copper implements and ornaments are fashioned by the "Old Copper" culture of Wisconsin from ore found in the area around Lake Superior.

2000 BC: Inuit peoples begin to move into what is now the Northwest Territories.

c. 1900 BC: The Red Paint peoples, who live on the banks of Maine's Penobscot River, spread red ochre over their dead and their grave offerings.

c. 1600 BC: In Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Ontario, the glacial Kame peoples use the gravel ridges formed by melting glaciers for burial sites.

c. 1400 BC: At a cemetary near Port Aux Choix in Newfoundland, treasured and useful articles, as well as carved images of animals and birds, are buried with the dead.

c. 1100 BC: Woodland hunters in eastern North American depend on the canoe in their search for game. River travel gives them access to new forest areas.

c. 1000 BC: The Woodland tradition of eastern North America begins. This tradition is characterized by burial mounds and elaborate earthworks.

c. 700 BC: The civilization at Poverty Point, Louisiana, is at its peak, importing materials from as far away as the Great Lakes and Appalachian Mountains areas.

500 BC: Northwest Coast native peoples begin to flourish.