History Part 1
This specific animal pelt was highly prized as a winter luxury status symbol in Europe, driving the entire North American trade economy.
What are beaver pelts?
First Nations people taught Europeans how to build and navigate these watercraft, which became central to moving goods along trade routes. Hint: Full name is 2 words!
What are birchbark canoes?
This essential map tool shows you orientation by pointing out the cardinal directions: North, South, East, and West.
What is a compass rose?
Formed by tectonic plates smashing together or volcanic activity, these massive landforms rise steeply above their surroundings and feature high peak
What is a Mountain?
This major river flows from Lake Ontario out to the Atlantic Ocean, acting as a crucial historic shipping route for Quebec and Ontario.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
This group of people were the very first inhabitants of North America, living with a deep respect for the land's resources.
Who are the First Nations?
On July 3, 1608, this French citizen established the settlement of New France at Québec City.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
This westernmost province is famous for its temperate rainforests, the Rocky Mountains, and its long Pacific Ocean coastline.
What is British Columbia?
These slow-moving, massive rivers of ice carve out deep valleys and reshape the landscape over thousands of years.
What are Glaciers?
This is the imaginary line running horizontally around the exact middle of the Earth, dividing it into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
European explorers initially sailed west across the Atlantic in the 1400s because they were desperately trying to find a trade route to this continent.
What is Asia?
This major war broke out in the United States and spread to Europe, making the British deeply distrustful of Acadian neutrality.
What is the Seven Years' War?
This is the only officially bilingual province in Canada (English and French), located on the east coast next to Quebec.
What is New Brunswick?
Often called a "tableland," this landform is a large, flat area of land that is raised significantly higher than the surrounding area.
What are Plateaus?
This massive body of water is located in northeastern Canada, and the Canadian Shield wraps completely around it like a giant horseshoe.
What is the Hudson Bay?
In 1497, this Italian captain sailed for England and claimed Newfoundland, noting that the waters were incredibly rich with cod fish?
Who was John Cabot?
When the Acadians refused to take the oath and side with Britain, the British military retaliated with this mass action.
What is the Expulsion of the Acadians?
This province is Canada's smallest in both land size and population, famous for its red sand beaches and potatoes.
What is P.E.I?
This dynamic geological process—which includes forces like weathering, wind, and moving water—is responsible for carving, reshaping, and wearing down landforms over millions of years.
What is Erosion?
Sharing a name with a famous dog breed, this province is the absolute easternmost point of Canada.
What is Newfoundland and Labrador?
acques Cartier officially claimed Canadian land for France in July 1534 by performing this symbolic action on the shores of the Gaspé Peninsula.
What is raising/planting a large wooden cross?
Built after the Treaty of Utrecht, this massive commercial and heavily defended French fishing port was erected on low-lying ground, leaving its land defenses weak.
What is the Fortress of Louisbourg?
This is the capital city of the Northwest Territories, famously known as the "Diamond Capital of North America."
What is Yellowknife?
This landform is a wide, mostly flat area of land that is often ideal for farming because of its rich, deep soil.
What are the Plains?
Beyond territorial expansion, British officials harbored deep social and political distrust toward the Acadians due to a fundamental clash between Britain's Protestant state identity and this religious practice of the Acadians.
What is Catholicism (or the Roman Catholic faith)?