Canada was the location of a colony.
Canada . Its capital is Ottawa , and other major urban areas include Calgary , Edmonton , Quebec City , Winnipeg and Hamilton . Various aboriginal peoples had inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years prior to European colonization . This began an accretion of provinces and territories to the mostly self-governing Dominion to the present ten provinces and three territories forming modern Canada . The United Province of Canada , or the Province of Canada , or the United Canadas was a British colony in North America from 1841 to 1867 .