Canada is steeped in history... You will find prehistoric sites all over, historical evidence of the indigenous peoples all across the country as well as some fascinating more recent historic places that brought the birth of Canada...
Some of the heaviest fighting our soldiers experienced in the war took place during the Battle of Kapyong in April 1951. The battle was a turning point in the Korean War and the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry helped prevent a potentially costly defeat for the South Korean and United Nations forces.
Many believed that Christopher Columbus was the first european to discover North America in 1492. That was until 1960 when Norwegian explorer and writer, Helge Ingstad. He was making an intensive search for Norse landing places along the coast from New England northward. At L’Anse aux Meadows, a local inhabitant named George Decker, led him to a group of overgrown bumps and ridges that looked as if they might be building remains. They later proved to be all that was left of that old colony.
Skmaqn–Port-la-Joye–Fort Amherst is a National Historic Site in Rocky Point, Prince Edward Island.
L’Anse Amour was designated a national historic site of Canada in 1978 because:
-it is one of the largest and longest used Aboriginal habitation sites in Labrador, representing the remains of many small camps; and,
-it features the earliest known funeral monument in the New World, created between 6100 and 6600 B.C.E.
