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Canada’s founding peoples are the Indigenous (Aboriginal) peoples, the French who settled New France, and the British who later governed the colonies; these three groups shaped the nation’s early political and cultural institutions. Choice A is misleading because it lists Germans, who never formed a founding population, and treats English as separate from the British component.

Canada was officially established as a country through Confederation on July 1, 1867, with the passage of the British North America Act. The year 1776 is incorrect because it marks the United States Declaration of Independence, which occurred nearly a century before the Canadian provinces united into a single Dominion.

Canada was officially established as a country through Confederation on July 1, 1867, with the passage of the British North America Act. A diagram for this topic isn't available yet — the worked example below walks the same reasoning step by step.

• !The year 1776 is incorrect because it marks the United States Declaration of Independence, which occurred nearly a century before the Canadian provinces united into a single Dominion.
• !Many confuse later leaders such as Wilfrid Laurier, who served from 1901 to 1911, but he was the seventh prime minister, not the inaugural one.

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