Settlers
These people were offering up land that didn't belong to them.
Who were the British Government?
This was the goal of the European Missionaries.
What was to spread Christianity?
This was the year that Canada became an independent nation.
When was 1871?
This is where the smallpox epidemic in Victoria was believed to have come from.
Where is San Francisco?
This was the new kind of furs that everyone wanted out west
What is otter fur?
This is what happened when the British cleared land for a sawmill
What is the First Peoples moved on to it?
The British government thought that the First People's children would do this if they attended Residential Schools.
What is assimilate?
BC was not one of the first four provinces. However this was one.
What is Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick?
This is what the Europeans did when all the Haida were getting sick.
What was go to the Police?
This First Peoples leader made lots of money off of the fur trade.
Who was Maquinna?
This is most commonly where small communities began to spring up.
What is by Trading Posts?
This was the set of laws that largely inhibited the life of First Peoples in Canada. It is still in place today, but has been altered.
What is the Indian Act?
This was the year BC officially joined Canada.
What is 1871?
This person left Victoria when the Smallpox epidemic hit, leading to a lack of leadership. Don't need his name, just his title.
Who was the Governor?
One first peoples chief gave away these European gifts when he was hosting his potlatches. It turned out to be very problematic.
What are blankets?
This was one of two problems with the land that the Europeans moved the First Peoples too.
What is that it was terrible for farming and the spaces of land were often too small.
This was the year the Residential School was finally closed for good.
What is 1996?
This was the group of First Peoples who were working in Victoria at the time of Confederation and the Small pox epidemic.
Who were the Haida?
This was how many Haida people were killed out of 10 by the Smallpox pandemic.
What is 9 out of 10?
This became a huge problem in the fur trade and forced the first peoples to change their way of life.
What is when the sea otters were extinct in BC
Europeans settling and giving away land that doesn't belong to them was one of the factors that started this system of moving First Peoples to certain areas.
What is the Reserve System?
When First People's lost their elders, they also lost sections of their history, leading to a loss of this.
What is Identity and Culture?
This is the holiday that the government has recently introduced where we reflect on the choices and actions made towards the First Peoples of Canada. The holiday is in September.
What is Truth and Reconciliation Day?
This is both the reason the smallpox epidemic spread and the reason the Haida developed a poor relationship with the Europeans.
What is they were told to leave Victoria at gunpoint?
The First Peoples had grown accustomed to having these items in their lives, which made life after the fur trade ended very challenging.
What were guns, blankets, copper pots and knives.