Indigenous Peoples
These three groups make up the Indigenous peoples of Canada.
Who are First Nations, Métis, and Inuit?
This disease, brought by Europeans, caused devastating population loss among Indigenous peoples.
What is smallpox
People in the 1600s often came to Canada for this resource and economic opportunity.
What is land or fur trade opportunity?
This word describes Canada being home to many cultures and backgrounds.
What is multicultural?
Initially, it was mainly focused on fur trading and attracting traders and adventurers to Canada. As time passed, the company expanded its activities beyond fur trading to include other goods and services.
What is the Hudson's Bay Company
These peoples were the original inhabitants of the land now called Canada.
Who are Indigenous peoples?
European arrival caused this type of relationship that included both agreement and tension.
What is cooperation and conflict?
Today, many people immigrate to Canada for this non-economic reason—related to safety.
What is escaping conflict or seeking safety?
This First Nations Group helped Chinese Canadians fight against discrimination.
Who are the Musqueam First Nation?
This group fought for equal rights in Canada and, in 1832, were legally allowed to hold public office.
Who are Jewish Canadians?
These were two essential ways Indigenous peoples helped European settlers survive.
What are teaching survival skills (like hunting/fishing) and sharing food/medicine?
Indigenous peoples helped Europeans adapt to this important Canadian season.
What is winter?
This is one common modern reason families choose to move to Canada to study or work.
What is education or job opportunities?
Residents of this community were eventually forced to leave their homes, but it remains an important symbol of Black Canadian history.
What is Africville?
Overhunting this animal by Europeans led to its disappearance, which affected plants, fish, and birds that depended on it for survival.
What is the beaver?
This essential skill taught by Indigenous peoples helped European settlers find food and survive in unfamiliar environments.
What is hunting or fishing knowledge?
This was one reason Europeans relied on Indigenous communities during early settlement.
What is they did not know how to survive in the environment?
This is one way the reasons for immigrating in the 1600s differ from today
What is early settlers came for resources/land while today people come for safety/jobs/family?
This group is known for living simply, avoiding violence, and supporting one another.
Who are the Mennonites?
When European explorers first arrived in “new” lands, these were their two main priorities.
What are establishing trade relationships and acquiring survival knowledge from Indigenous peoples?
This long-term impact of European settlement affected Indigenous cultures for generations.
What is land loss, cultural disruption, or disease?
This system was used in New France to divide land into long narrow strips along rivers for farming and settlement.
What is the Seigneurial System?
This group came during the 1800s to build transportation networks and faced unfair treatment.
Who were Chinese railway workers?
This group came to Canada to work in farming, forestry, and construction.
Who are South Asian immigrants?
After the railway was completed, the Canadian government created this tax, which targeted Chinese immigrants and caused anger and discrimination.
What is the Chinese Head Tax?