High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Over the last 14,000 years, the territory that is now called Canada has evolved from a place without human habitation, to one characterized by a relatively small number of medium- to large-sized cities. Canada`s cities are strung like beads on a chain, across the continent from east to west, close to Canada`s border with the United States, and are home to most of Canada`s 33,000,000 inhabitants.