What year?
What is 1867?
What was the main type of transportation for European explorers?
To travel by boat
What are Canada's two official languages and why?
What are French and English, because the French and British discovered and colonized Canada?
Who were the first inhabitants of Canada?
What are the Indigenous people?
What was the Underground Railroad?
It was numerous routes leading from the Southern USA into Canada, and other places, to help enslaved Americans escape to freedom.
Samuel de Champlain established the Quebec City in ____________?
What is 1608?
What was the most important body of water/travel route for European explorers in Canada?
The St Lawerence River
The word used when colonies came together/united.
What is confederation?
Who established the first French colonies in Canada?
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
Who treated the Indigenous people as equals and benefitted from their knowledge, the French or the British?
The French
What year was the first Residential School opened in Canada?
What is 1831?
Date of confederation of Canada
What is July 1,1867?
What happened in Charlottetown in 1864?
In Charlottetown in 1864 the leaders of the colonies got together to discuss confederation.
What was the main means of transportation for European explorers in Canada?
To travel by boat
What year was the Indian Act Established?
What is 1876?
Aside from animal furs, what other natural resource were explorers cultivating in Canada that was of value in Europe? What was this resource used for?
White pine, which was used to build ships.
First four provinces of Canada to join confederation.
What is Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia?
Who is Alexander Mackenzie and what did he accomplish?
What was the biggest challenge european explorers faced when trying to survive in Canada?
Surviving cold Canadian winters
The Hudson Bay company sold Rupert's Land land for 1.5 million in ______________.
What is 1870?
When the Europeans had exhausted all of the resources near the St Lawrence River, they had to travel north. What organization was created when they moved north?
The Hudson Bay Company
What was the last province to join Canada?
What is Newfoundland?
Because this was the battle where the British won over the French and gained control of all French colonies in Canada. Therefor, the British were now fully in power in Canada, which changed the course of Canadian history.
Who were the Filles du roi?
They were were unmarried, orphaned, and widowed women who were sponsored by the king to immigrate to New France to help grow the population.