most quebecois can trace their maternal ancestry back to a small number of "fille du rois" who were sent over specifically to establish the colony as most of the people who were paying their own way were fur trappers looking to make money, but women weren't making the trip, and so before french women got sent over the french men were usually producing metis children rather than french children. the metis were mostly in manitoba by the end but there were some all over the place. due to the conquest of canada by the british, the french stop sending more people over, and the british instead started sending english-speaking colonists. this meant that the french speaking population's ancestry was basically set in stone in the 18th century but the despite all the english speaking migrants the french population was able to keep up with the english mass migration through birth rate alone (sometimes you might get the occasional irish or italian catholic who intermarried into the french population but it was rare). thus quebecois are really a nation of white people who can truly be said to have had their origins in north america because they are traceable descended from a small group of people from the 1600s and then just exploded in population to the point that they consituted what could be considered its own new nation distinct from the french nation. while they spoke french and had french origins (albeit a lot of them were actually bretons and basques who became "french" in the new world as the atlantic facing parts of france tended to supply more migrants) they are truly one of the latest historical groups of people who can really be considered their own, biological, nation. sure the french contributed to creating them, but the saxons contributed to creating england, but the english are their own nation different than merely being an offshoot of a particular part of germany. what group can you really say was generated later than them?
Canada