Natural Resources
The Importance of Land
Securing the Land
Building the Iron Road
Trouble in Whoop-up Country
100
What is a natural resource?
Parts of nature that people can use to survive.
100
What natural resources did the first nation peoples make use of?
water plants and animals
100
Why did Canada want to secure its claim to the land in the west?
They wanted to occupy it before the Americans
100
What three things were included in the national land policy
Transportation, Immigration and economy
100
Where was Cypress hill?
Southern Saskatchewan
200
Give 3 examples of natural resources
Fish, land, trees, furs, waters, oil, minerals
200
What is confederation?
When Canada became a country
200
What did the government have to do before the newcomers arrived?
They had to gain control over the land
200
What year was the railroad built?
1870
200
Who came here in winter?
Cree, Siksika, Nakoda
300
What affect did natural resources have on people?
They affected where people chose to live.
300
What happened after the confederation
Thousands of newcomers began arriving in the west
300
How did Canada gain control over the land?
Signed treaties with first nations
300
By building the railway Canada hoped to bring who into confederation and keep who out?
B.C , Americans
300
What did they hunt?
Game animals
400
Why did Europeans first come to Canada?
They were searching for China
400
What was one thing that the majority of them wanted?
Land
400
What does NWMP stand for?
North West Mounted Police
400
How much did each km of track cost?
Half a million dollars
400
Who were the whiskey traders?
Traded alcohol illegally for fur
500
Why did the Europeans stay?
Natural resources
500
What was the main reason the government built the railway?
So immigrants could travel into the west and farm the land
500
What was expected of the NWMP?
The police were intended to make the land safe for all the expected newcomer
500
Before the railway could be built what needed to happen?
Surveyors needed to find the best route. Things like flatter land, fewer trees made it easier to build
500
Why would the wolf hunters put poison in the buffalo carcasses?
The wolves would eat the buffalo carcasses and die allowing the wold hunters to take their fur.
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