Yes there were and God told them to destroy all of them---which they didn't---why they are having the problems thay are having today.
Exo_3:8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Noice. But there were already people living there, hey.
Yes there were and God told them to destroy all of them---which they didn't---why they are having the problems thay are having today. Exo_3:8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.