History time; France set sail west in hopes of finding asia, but found North America instead. France started making towns and such where Canada is, then Britain came into the mix aswell. So, later, some people hated the British coming there so they went down south and started making what we now know as the USA.

Back to Canada; We eventually became independant and later, BC became in debt because of a gold rush. So the current Canada offered to pay their debt out if they joined the Canadian empire thing.

And then so forth; Canada started getting all the other provinces and became moden Canada.

Well, that's what I learned from school anyway >.>