[quote=Vortex] Yes except the settlers were not natives to canada but the invaders. [/quote] Clearly you know nothing about the history of the area. Western Canada (the Prairies, not British Columbia) was only extensively settled around the turn of the 19th century and into the early decades of the 20th century. There were small numbers of early settlers before that, of course, but all of the cities that are now the largest in the region were only extensively populated starting in the early years of the 20th century. Britain took possession of French North America in 1760. The Canadiens were around well before that. The Canadians that moved west to settle the Prairies, along with other European immigrants like Germans and Ukrainians, weren't 'invaders'. They were moving into land that their several hundred year old country had owned since 1870, before most of them were born. If that's not early enough for them to not be considered invaders, the precursor to their country had owned that land since around two hundred years before 1870—before the people that now claimed to own it, the Métis, had even existed, let alone lived there for any length of time (and even farther from actually having done anything to the land).