title: 1st millennium in Canada
text: # 1st millennium in Canada
  
  Events from the first millennium AD in Canada.
  
  ## Events
  
  * c. AD 175: Funeral offerings in graves at the Norton Mounds in Michigan are elaborate. Materials imported from great distances indicate vigorous trade.
  * c. AD 500: The Thule people arrive in Alaska
  * c. AD 550: In the Upper Mississippi and Great Lakes areas, Woodland peoples construct their burial mounds in the shape of birds or animals.
  * c. AD 985-1014: Norsemen led by Leif Ericson, son of Erik the Red, set up outposts in North America like L'Anse aux Meadows with encounters with the Inuit, Beothuks, and Micmacs.
  