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ELI5: Historically speaking, what's the connection between Canada and France?
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In the game of exploration and claiming the European countries with sailing ships started exploring the Americas. The Spanish claimed any land they sighted and touched ignoring all natives on the lands. The other countries followed suit. 
 
The French discovered the Mississippi River and claimed all the lands drained by it. They sailed up the St. Lawrence and claimed that land. Everyone went around claiming land, ignoring the natives, and started the next step, establishing posts, forts, and settlements.

The French started a fur trade with the natives. They built trading stations along the rivers they discovered. The French started settlements and plantations along the rivers they discovered. French fur traders covered great distances. But fur trading is not being farmers. French farmers settled in Quebec. Eventually France and England fought a war and France surrendered their claims in Canada but the French speaking settlers stayed in Quebec.