Explorers & Early Settlement
This Norse explorer came to North America around the year 1000.
Who is Leif Erikson?
The two main companies in the fur trade were the North West Company and this one.
What is the Hudson Bay Company?
This war (1756–1763) decided whether France or Britain would control North America.
What is the Seven Years' War?
Canada became a country in this year.
What is 1867?
This war (1939–1945) saw Canada fight on the side of the Allies.
What is World War II?
He claimed land for France in 1534 and explored the St. Lawrence River.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
These people were skilled at trading, paddling canoes, and carrying furs.
Who were the voyageurs?
After this war, many American colonists who were loyal to Britain moved to Canada.
What is the American Revolution?
The first four provinces of Canada were Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and this one.
What is New Brunswick?
This event in the 1930s caused poverty and unemployment across Canada.
What is the Great Depression?
This explorer founded Quebec and helped the Wendat (Huron) fight the Haudenosaunee.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
A person who owned large pieces of land in New France.
Who is a seigneur?
These people left the U.S. to stay loyal to Britain and settle in Canada.
Who are the Loyalists?
He was the first Prime Minister of Canada.
Who is Sir John A. Macdonald?
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French traders who lived among Indigenous peoples and traveled deep into the forest.
Who are the coureurs des bois?
These people worked the land for the seigneur.
Who are the habitants?
This group faced racism and hardship but built strong Black communities in Nova Scotia.
Who are Black Loyalists?
This group of five women fought for women to be recognized as “persons.”
Who are the Famous Five?
These women fought for the right to vote and be leaders. Name one or what they were called as a group.
Who are: Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, and Irene Parlby. or Who were suffragettes?
This group of women was sent from France to New France to help grow the population.
Who were the Filles du Roi?
Children of European fur traders and Indigenous women formed this cultural group.
Who are the Métis?
This major event (1815–1850) brought thousands of immigrants to Canada.
What is the Great Migration?
This act in 1876 controlled almost every part of Indigenous life.
What is the Indian Act?
Canada’s newest territory, created in 1999, is called this
What is Nunavut?