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> lived in the local rivers long before our towns were even an idea To be fair, the towns you're talking about are barely 200-300 years or so I presume? Most o
by embedding-shape 4d ago
> lived in the local rivers long before our towns were even an idea
To be fair, the towns you're talking about are barely 200-300 years or so I presume? Most other towns in the world are probably older than those towns, and maybe even the fish if it's just 400 years ago :)
- defrost 4d agoTo be fair the towns a North American might be talking about could easily date to 400 to 600 years ago at least - with signs of human occupation in the Great Lakes area going back 10-12,000 years before present, a good deal on the present lake floors.
- amanaplanacanal 4d agoWhere I live on the West Coast any towns older than a couple hundred years are long gone, the people were killed or evicted from their land long ago. The existing towns are all new.
- defrost 4d agoTowns are where people live, buildings come and go - Manitoulin Island, within the Great Lakes, still has the Wiikwemkoong First Nation unceded and occupied land, near to which French Jesuits set up a mission in 1648.
- buescher 4d agoProbably not: you grossly underestimate the amount of urban growth and development worldwide since the industrial revolution.