Daily Life in BNA
Daily Life in BNA II
Daily Life in BNA III
Daily Life in BNA IV
Terms
100
Many Aboriginal people lived in traditional homes called these.
What are wigwams?
100
The first public one of these opened in Canada East in 1836, improving transportation in the area.
What is the railway?
100
Learning a trade or this other activity was seen as the best way to get ahead in the world.
What is working on the family farm?
100
This was a game that was popular with First Nations boys and men that involved sliding a large stick across the snow.
What is snowsnake?
100
The group with the smallest numbers is called this.
What is the minority?
200
Wealthy people tended to live in large, elegant homes, whereas farmers houses were more like this.
What is a one-room cabin of rough logs with a dirt floor?
200
Diseases and serious disabilities due to these were much more common in the mid 1800s than they are today.
What are accidents?
200
In the early years of the colonies, almost all schools were run by these types of organizations.
What are religious organizations?
200
Scottish settlers found the long Canadian winters ideal for playing this sport, which was their favourite.
What is curling?
200
The group with the largest numbers is called this.
What is the majority?
300
One similarity among all homes was that there was no indoor plumbing. Instead people had to use this outdoor facility when they had to go to the bathroom.
What is an outhouse?
300
Many people in these areas might not ever have a chance to see a doctor.
What are rural areas?
300
As time went by, these types of schools were set up and were partly paid for with tax money.
What are publicly funded schools?
300
Historians debate where exactly this sport originated.
What is hockey?
300
The areas in which people live on farms or other places outside towns and cities are called this.
What are rural areas?
400
Homes in BNA had the following things in common: Light came from candles or oil lamps, heat came from a fireplace or wood stove, there was no indoor plumbing, and this other similarity.
What is water had to be drawn by hand from a well, a nearby spring, or streams and lakes?
400
Many minor injuries became deadly because there were none of this type of drug that is used to cure infections.
What are antibiotics?
400
Rural schools were often buildings made up of this many classrooms.
What is one?
400
People living in cities had opportunities to go to special events, whereas people in rural areas often held this type of get together, where everyone made a party of getting some work done.
What are "work bees"?
400
This term refers to living in cities or towns with bigger populations.
What is urban?
500
Travel on land was by foot, horse, or these other strong animals.
What are oxen?
500
This term is used to refer to an outbreak of a disease that spreads very quickly in an area.
What is an epidemic?
500
The main goal of school in First Nations and Inuit communities were to teach the children about European culture and this.
What is religion?
500
This was the name given to French farmers who lived in rural areas.
What are habitants?
500
These were the first people living in British North America before European contact.
Who are the First Nations peoples?
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