Leola Davidson, age 11, of York county, New Brunswick, Canada for her question:

How did the first people get to Canada?

The American Indians spread themselves all the way from the Arctic Circle down to the tip of South America. But scientists tell us that all of them arrived in the New World by way of the Bering Strait in the far north. Ages ago, this region was higher than it is today. The Aleutian Islands may have been linked together in a long finger of land. Perhaps the watery inlets were covered over with thick slabs of solid ice. In any case, a bridge of land stretched across the northern neck of the Pacific Ocean linking America to Asia.

Scientists have a theory that the American Indians originally came from Asia across this long gone bridge of land. We know how they came to the New World but we do not know exactly when. Without doubt, they came in groups, one after another through a long period of time. Some traveled south and still farther southward. Others spread east and southeast through Canada and some stayed in the frozen north. All of them came by land from Asia many thousands of years ago. But we do not know when different groups wandered around to settle different territories in the New World.