First Nations Communities
The three First Nations communities we studied are __________, ____________, and ____________.
These people helped the Scottish Settlers.
Who are First Nations people?
_____________ settled in Queen's Bush.
Who are Black newcomers to Upper Canada?
The trade routes between Lake Ontario and Lake Huron were called _____________.
What is the Toronto Passage?
What is a wigwam?
The settlers used _________ for fishing and travelling between communities?
What is a canoe?
Families already living in the Queen's Bush helped the Black settlers get started by _____________________.
What is lending tools, giving them seeds and hiring them to help with the harvest?
Before 1850, most of the settlers in Toronto were arriving from the following places:
Mohawk people had these types of jobs.
What is farming, hunting, trapping and fishing?
The women and girls in Glengarry County had busy days. They spent their time doing these tasks.
What is cleaning, sewing, knitting, cleaning, baking, milking cows, collecting eggs and harvesting crops?
The settlers of Queen Bush interacted with one another in the following ways:
What is cutting logs, selling eggs, building log cabins, giving seeds etc.?
What is the people of the Mississauga First Nation having to move away from the area in order to keep living in their traditional ways?
Some Métis people chose to live where?
Along a river that was part of a major fur-trading route.
Settlers grew these kinds of food:
What are corn, beans, squash, pumpkins, cucumbers, cabbages and wheat?
The people build _________ and ___________ to help their community grow strong.
It was hard to be healthy in Toronto in the 1800s due to these reasons:
What is lack of flushing toilets and running water, garbage on the streets, and drinking dirty water from the streams?
In 1780, many newcomers arrived from France and Great Britain. The newcomers traded goods such as cloth or tools with First Nations people for ___________.
What is animal fur?
The settlers faced the following challenges:
What is chopping down trees, moving rocks and boulders, make everything from scratch, grow their own food, and feelings of loneliness and isolation?
What is clearing up the land to live on, long winters with lots of snow and freezing winds and trouble getting enough food?
Some people in Toronto tried to solve the city's problems. List one of the ways they tried to solve them.
What is raising money for pregnant women who could not afford healthcare, building a home for people who were sick or had a disability, or volunteer firefighters?