The Canadian people are not all the same. There are many different groups. They came to Canada at different times. ①他们来自不同的地方。 Many of them still live in different ways.
Long ago, only Native (土著的) Americans live in Canada. They arrived thousands of years ago. ②Today there are about fifty different American groups. The Eskimos came after the Native Americans did. They have also been in Canada for a long, long time. Most Eskimos live in the north of Canada, where it is very cold.
The European settlers started arriving 450 years ago. Most came from France. They are a large group in Canada today. They follow French customs or ways of doing things. They speak French. Later, most settlers came from England and Scotland. They speak English. Canadians have also come from Germany and Italy. There are smaller groups from other places, too.
You can see that different kinds of people are called Canadians. Many do not want to forget their own customs and languages. But they share a large country. They share a future in that country. They are all Canadians. Today more than half of all Canadians speak English.
