The New World had its first exposure to domestic cattle in 1518, but it wasn’t until Samuel de Champlain brought them to Quebec in 1608 that they became an enduring part of North American agriculture. By 1660, breeding cows brought from Brittany and Normandy became the basis of the only breed of dairy cow developed in Canada—called, appropriately enough—the Canadienne.

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