A number of states and polities formerly claimed colonies and territories in Canada prior to the evolution of the current provinces and territories under the federal system.
 North America prior to colonization was occupied by a variety of Aboriginal polities of different complextions, from small independent band societies typical of the sparsely populated North, to loose confederacies made up of numerous hunting bands from a variety of ethnic groups (Plains region), to more structured confederacies of sedentary farming villages (Great Lakes region), to stratified hereditary structures centred on a fishing economy (Plateau and Pacific Coast regions).
 The colonization of Canada by Europeans began in the 10th century, when Norsemen explored and, ultimately unsuccessfully, attempted to settle areas of the northeastern fringes of North America.
 Early permanent European settlements in what is now Canada included the late 16th and 17th century French colonies of Acadia and Canada (New France), the English colonies of Newfoundland (island) and Rupert's Land, the Scottish colonies of Nova Scotia and Port Royal.
Pomeroon is the name of a former Dutch plantation colony on the Pomeroon River in the Guiana region on the north coast of South America.
 After early colonization attempts in the late 16th century were attacked by Spaniards and local Indians, the original inhabitants fled the interior of Guiana, founding the colony of Essequibo around Fort Kyk-Over-Al shortly after.
 A second, and more serious attempt at colonization started in 1650, but was ultimately unsuccessful, as French privateers destroyed the colony in 1689.
 In the late 18th century, a third attempt of colonization was started, this time under the jurisdiction of the Essequibo colony.
Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province consisting of an island of the same name.
 The island is part of Mi'kma'ki, the lands of the Mi'kmaq people.
 Explored by Europeans in the 16th Century, the French claimed all of the lands of the Maritimes in 1604 and French settlers arrived in 1720.
 By conquest, the British claimed all of the lands including Prince Edward Island in 1763.
 It became the British colony of St. John Island in 1769 and joined the Canadian Confederation on July 1, 1873.
This is a list of mammal species recorded in the wild in Newfoundland, the island portion of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
 Only 14 known species (and one extinct species) are or were native to the island; this list is divided into native species and species introduced to the island since discovery by Europeans and colonization in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
French America (French: "Amérique française" ) is the French-speaking community of people and their diaspora, notably those tracing back origins to New France, the early French colonization of the Americas.
 The Canadian province of Quebec is the centre of the community and is the point of origin of most of French America.
 It also includes communities in all provinces of Canada (especially in New Brunswick, where francophones are roughly one third of the population), Saint Pierre et Miquelon, Haiti, Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Lucia, Martinique, and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean; French Guiana (Overseas region of France) in South America.
 Also there are minorities of French speakers in part of the United States (New England, Louisiana, Florida), Dominica, Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago.
The colonial history of the United States covers the history of European settlements from the start of colonization in the early 16th century until their incorporation into the "United States of America" in 1776.
 In the late 16th century, England, France, Spain, and the Netherlands launched major colonization programs in eastern North America.
 Small early attempts sometimes disappeared, such as the English Lost Colony of Roanoke.
 Everywhere, the death rate was very high among the first arrivals.
 Nevertheless, successful colonies were established within several decades.
The French colonization of the Americas began in the 16th century, and continued on into the following centuries as France established a colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere.
 France founded colonies in much of eastern North America, on a number of Caribbean islands, and in South America.
 Most colonies were developed to export products such as fish, sugar, and furs.
Islam is the predominant religion in Senegal.
 92 percent of the country's population is estimated to be Muslim, mainly Sunni of Maliki school of thought with Sufi influences.
 Islam has had a presence in Senegal since the 11th century.
 Sufi brotherhoods expanded with French colonization, as people turned to religious authority rather than the colonial administration.
 The main Sufi orders are the Tijaniyyah, the Muridiyyah or Mourides, and to a lesser extent, the pan-Islamic Qadiriyyah and the smaller Layene order.
 Approximately 1% of the Muslims follow the Ahmadiyya thought.
Until French colonization in the middle of the 19th century, Vietnam's economy was mainly agrarian and village-oriented.
 French colonizers, however, deliberately developed the regions differently, designating the South for agricultural production and the North for manufacturing.
 Though the plan exaggerated regional divisions, the development of exports--coal from the North, rice from the South—and the importation of French manufactured goods stimulated internal commerce.
The wildlife of Haiti is important to the country because of its biodiversity.
 According to the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Haiti is considered to be "one of the most biologically significant countries of the West Indies".
 With an estimated 5,600 plant species on the island of Hispaniola, some of which only occur in Haiti, 36% are considered as endemic to the island.
 A mountainous area country, it is situated in the western three-eighths of Hispaniola and shares a border with the Dominican Republic.
 There are nine life zones, from low desert to high cloud forests, as well as four mountain ranges, and hundreds of rivers and streams and the coral reefs in the seas that surround the islands.
 Issues of environmental damage, expanding population, deforestion and erosion are of concern; less than 2% of the original forest remains on account of deforestation.
 This degradation is traced from the 17th century to 19th century starting with the French colonization of the Haiti and population explosion during the 20th century and for the purpose of forestry and sugar-related industries, degraded the forests.
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Question: What Canadian province is the centre of the French colonization that began in the 16th century?
Answer: Quebec