1st millennium in Canada

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Events from the first millennium AD in Canada.

Events

• c. AD 175: Funeral offerings in graves at the Norton Mounds in Michigan are elaborate. Materials imported from great distances indicate vigorous trade.
• c. AD 500: The Thule people arrive in Alaska
• c. AD 550: In the Upper Mississippi and Great Lakes areas, Woodland peoples construct their burial mounds in the shape of birds or animals.
• c. AD 985-1014: Norsemen led by Leif Erikson, son of Erik the Red, set up outposts in North America like L'Anse aux Meadows with encounters with the Inuit, Beothuk, and Mi'kmaqs.

Further reading

• Matthews, Geoffrey J (1987). Historical atlas of Canada, From the beginning to 1800. Vol. 1. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0802024955.

See also

• List of North American settlements by year of foundation
• History of Canada
• Timeline of Canada history
• List of years in Canada
• Norse colonization of North America

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