Indigenous
The Mi'kamq people traded this resource for metal tools with the French.
What is beaver fur?
Where was Christopher Columbus trying to reach when he set sail in 1492?
What is India
Hudson searched for a shortcut to Asia called?
What is the NorthWest Passage
How many expeditions did Henry Hudson sail on?
What is 4 expeditions
Scurvy
A disease resulting from lack of Vitamin C that causes internal bleeding.
Who was the last known living member of the Beothuk people?
Who is Shanawdithit
This man was the first recorded European to land in Canada.
Who is Giovanni Caboto
What was one of the challenges Jacques Cartier faced on his journeys?
What is he become ill with scurvy, faced harsh weathers, icy waters, and terrible snow storms
Cartier's crew avoided dying of this disease by drinking a tea made from tree bark provided by the Indigenous people.
What is Scurvy
Sieur de Monts
A French nobleman who sponsored expeditions to explore and colonize North America.
Giovanni Caboto came into contact with this First Nations group?
Who is the Mi'kamq?
On his second voyage, Cartier sailed up from which major river?
What is the St Lawrence River
Cartier misunderstood this Huron-Iroquois word meaning village, accidentally giving Canada its name.
What is kanata
Canada's longest river system is named after this explorer, who mistakenly followed it to the Arctic Ocean instead of the Pacific.
Who is Alexander Mackenzie
True or False:
Cartier planted a massive wooden cross on the Gaspé Peninsula to honor Indigenous traditions.
False- He did it to claim the land for France.
This French term refers to the cultural group born from the marriages between European fur traders and First Nations women.
Who are the Metis
In 1793, this Scottish-born explorer became the first European to cross the entire continent of North America north of Mexico by land.
Who is Alexander Mackenzie
What is The Discovery
Sailing for the Northwest Passage in the 1570s, this English explorer made three trips to the Arctic and brought back hundreds of tons of worthless black ore.
Who is Martin Frobisher
True or False:
Cartier kidnapped Cheif Donnacona and his 2 sons and brought them back to France successfully.
FALSE- They died on the way there due to their lack of immunity from European diseases.
Samuel de Champlain formed a vital military and trading alliance with this First Nations group, helping them fight their rivals, the Iroquois.
Who is the Huron?
Reaching the Pacific, Mackenzie wrote a famous message on a rock in this Canadian province.
What is British Columbia
Who sponsored Jacques Cartiers first expedition?
Who his King France 1
Mackenzie worked for this fur trading company, the main rival of the Hudson's Bay Company.
What is the Northwest Company
True or False:
The Northwest Passage was successfully found by a European explorer.
False