How did Canada become a country?

Welcome to History's Not Boring! Join your hosts, Mira and Finn, as we travel all the way back to the year 1534 to answer a massive question: How did Canada become the second-largest country on Earth?! Long before there were modern cities and highways, this amazing land was home to First Nations peoples. Soon, French and British explorers arrived, and they started fighting over a vast, frozen wilderness! Why? For beaver pelts! The booming fur trade made people mega-rich, and the famous Hudson's Bay Company ended up controlling a huge territory bigger than all of Europe! We'll discover how the provinces finally teamed up in 1867 to create a brand-new nation through Confederation. But how do you connect a giant country from coast to coast? With a massive railway stitched right through impossible, snowy mountains! Grab your thickest winter coat and get ready for a wild ride full of daring explorers, greedy traders, and epic train tracks. Tune in to find out exactly how Canada was born!