Thousands of years ago, the ancestors of Aboriginal peoples migrated from:

Discover Canada records this in one direct sentence. The guide writes: The ancestors of Aboriginal peoples are believed to have migrated from Asia many thousands of years ago. The continent the test wants is therefore Asia.

The wording carries a careful qualifier. Discover Canada uses the phrase "are believed to have migrated" — meaning the source presents the Asian-origin migration as the prevailing scientific belief, not as a contested claim. The migration is dated to "many thousands of years ago" — placing the original arrival of Indigenous peoples on the continent in deep prehistoric time.

The migration predates European arrival by far. Discover Canada commits to a clear chronological sequence: the ancestors of Aboriginal peoples arrived from Asia first, and "they were well established here long before explorers from Europe first came to North America." So Indigenous peoples were not just present but firmly settled across the continent before any European contact. The guide writes that "diverse, vibrant First Nations cultures were rooted in religious beliefs about their relationship to the Creator, the natural environment and each other." So the long pre-contact history produced not just settlement but the development of complex, varied cultures with their own religious and worldview foundations.

This origin shapes Canada's three Aboriginal groups. Discover Canada commits Canada's Aboriginal population to THREE specific groups, each tracing back to that ancient Asian-origin migration: First Nations (about 65%), Métis (about 30% — of mixed Aboriginal and European ancestry, mainly in the Prairie provinces), and Inuit (about 4% — meaning "the people" in Inuktitut, living in small scattered communities across the Arctic). So when the test asks where the ancestors of Aboriginal peoples migrated from, the source-precise answer is Asia — the original continent from which Canada's first peoples are believed to have come, many thousands of years ago, well before European explorers arrived.

The question is testing whether new citizens know the origin continent of Aboriginal peoples' ancestors. Discover Canada commits to one continent: Asia. The right test answer matches that.

The wrong answer choices each substitute a different continent. "Africa" is the cradle of all humanity but is not the source's named migration origin for Aboriginal peoples. "Europe" reverses the source — Europeans arrived much later, after Aboriginal peoples were already well established here. The fourth choice names a different continent — South-American — that the source never names as the origin. Only Asia — the source's exact named origin — matches.