Journey to Upper Canada
By what mode of transportation did most of the settlers travel to Upper Canada?
Boat
What group of people were already in Upper Canada when the settlers arrived?
First Nations
What are moccasins?
A type of shoe that is made out of soft leather.
Where did early settlers set up farms?
Lakes, Rivers, and Fertile Land
Who fought for Britain during the American Revolution?
Loyalists
Most early settlers came from this continent.
Europe
Ireland
How did people buy things (other than using money)
They traded goods and skills
Many Indigenous people died due to what disease/illness?
Smallpox and colonial wars
Early settlers worked together on big jobs called....?
Bees
What did the British government promise to give the Black Loyalists for fighting the war?
Land and freedom
Why did early settlers choose to come to Upper Canada?
To farm, to start the fur trade, to escape unsafe living conditions, to escape the war, to escape slavery.
How did men gather food during the 1800s? (Hint: they went on specific trips)
Hunting
First Nations, Inuit, and Metis people are...
Canadian Settlers, The Indigenous Peoples of Canada, or Huron-Wendat and Anishinaabe?
The Indigenous Peoples of Canada
How did early settler children spend their time?
Helping with chores, cooking, and farming.
Trading routes
In the 1800s, many First Nations people started to get sick with diseases that they had never experienced before, like smallpox. Where might the diseases have come from?
Settlers bringing the diseases over from Europe and from the boat.
What types of food did people farm and hunt?
Corn, beans, squash, rice, and berries.
Fish, moose, deer, and bear.
What is one of the main animals that First Nations people hunted to eat?
Buffalo
What did European traders give to Indigenous people to buy fur?
Metal tools and cloth
Why did the early settlers want to be close to rivers and lakes?
For water to drink, wash, and cook with.
They needed water for crops and animals.
They needed to be close to water as they used the waterways for travel in canoes.
Give me 3 words to describe the boat ride might have been like towards Upper Canada.
Long, cold, dark, scary, damp, tragic, dirty, slimy, hungry
What happened to the land that the Indigenous peoples lived on once the early settlers came?
The early settlers took over the land and slowly pushed out the Indigenous peoples. They left them with land that could not be used for farming and sent them too far away from any water.
What type of meat is Pemmican made out of?
Buffalo meat
Why did Irish settlers leave their land to come to Upper Canada?
Potato famine
Tell me THREE things that are different when we compare life in the 1800s to now
-transportation
-electricity
-how houses/buildings were built
-clothing
-medicine
-jobs