![]() ![]() It was only when the ice began to melt and the glaciers started to retreat that the land beneath was exposed – and quite soon invaded by an amazing array of plants and animals, including one very special mammal… About 15,000 years ago, at the end of the ice age, all of Canada lay frozen beneath a layer of ice. Indeed, people had been living here for a long time. This was an unexplored and pristine nature – or so the European explorers thought…īut this land, today known as Canada, was not an untouched wilderness. When the first Europeans arrived on the eastern shores of a mysterious ‘new found land’, they saw a beautiful land of plains and forests, mountains and oceans, filled with an incredible variety of wildlife: whales and bears, bison and wolves, caribou and beavers.
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