Question: when did the first nation come to canada

title: First Nations
text: The Squamish history is a series of past events , both passed on through oral tradition and recent history , of the Squamish indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast . Prior to colonization , they recorded their history through oral tradition as a way to transmit stories , law , and knowledge across generations . This was common among all the peoples . The writing system established in the 1970s used the Latin alphabet as a base . Knowledgeable elders had the responsibility to pass historical knowledge to the next generation . People lived and prospered for thousands of years until the Great Flood . In another story , after the Flood , they would repopulate from the villages of Schenks and Chekwelp , located at Gibsons . When the water lines receded , the first Squamish came to be . The first man , named Tseḵánchten , built his longhouse in the village , and later on another man named Xelálten , appeared on his longhouse roof and sent by the Creator , or in the Squamish language keke7nex siyam . He called this man his brother . It was from these two men that the population began to rise and the Squamish spread back through their territory . A