加拿大西部开发历程加拿大原是英国的殖民地，但最早在这里建立殖民地的是法国人而不是英国人。英国人与法国人争夺对北美的控制权，于１７６３年打败法国，占领魁北克。１８６７年７月１日，魁北克等东部四殖民地在渥太华成立联邦式“加拿大自治领”，成为北美第二个独立国家 History of Western Canada Canada was originally a British colony, but the earliest here to establish a colony of French rather than British. The British and French raced for control of North America, defeating France in 1763 and occupying Quebec. July 1, 1867, Quebec and other four eastern colonies in Ottawa, the establishment of the federal “Canadian Dominance”, became North America’s second independent country