1. In the 15th century Samuel de Champlain and Gabriel Sagard recorded that the Iroquois and Huron cultivated the soil for maize or "Indian corn".

2. The first Croatians to arrive in Canada may have been 2 sailors from Dalmatia serving as crew on the third voyage of Jacques CARTIER (1541-42) and a miner who accompanied Samuel DE CHAMPLAIN (1604-06).