Dates
Names
Concepts
100

What year was Halifax founded?

1749

100

Who were the people who first met Christopher Columbus?

Taino

100

What natural resource were Europeans interested in?

Beavers

200

What year did John Cabot discover Cape Breton (first contact for the Mi'kmaw)?

1497

200

Which Nova Scotia governor paid for Mi'kmaw scalps?

Cornwallis

200

What religion did the French bring to the Mi'kmaw?

Catholicism

300

When did the Beothuk become extinct?

1829

300

Which European first discovered Cape Breton and met the first Mi'kmaw?

John Cabot

300

What disease was especially deadly for indigenous populations?

Small pox

400

When did Membertou die?

1611

400

Who founded Port Royal?

Samuel de Champlain

400

Which Europeans did the Mi'kmaw have the best relations with?

French

500

When was the first European settlement in Canada founded?

1605

500

Who was the first Mi'kmaw leader to be baptised by the French?

Membertou

500

Which competing faction won at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham?

British

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