Indigenous Nations
These were the first people living on the land now known as Canada.
Who are Indigenous Peoples?
This group was among the first to interact with European explorers, exchanging furs and fish.
Who are the Mi'kmaq?
This was the main passageway that explorers took to enter the territory.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
These people remained loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War.
Who are Loyalists?
This is the term for a formal agreement between two or more nations.
What is a treaty
This term refers to images carved into stone, over 500 of which can be found at Kejimkujik National Historic Site.
What are Petroglyphs
This major trading company was established to compete in the North American fur trade.
What is the Hudson’s Bay Company?
This social and land-holding system was a central part of society in New France.
What is the Seigneurial System?
Many Loyalists settled in this specific Atlantic province following the American Revolution.
What is Nova Scotia?
This wampum belt represents a treaty of peace and friendship between the Haudenosaunee and settlers.
What is the Two Row Wampum?
This group, whose name means "good humans," lived near the Great Lakes and valued keeping nature in balance.
Who are the Anishinaabe?
This newer company was a major rival to the Hudson's Bay Company between 1779 and 1821.
What is the North West Company?
This major conflict, occurring in the mid-1700s, had a massive impact on the future of New France.
What is the Seven Years' War?
These people fought against the British during the American Revolutionary War.
Who are Patriots?
Good historians consider these four things—source, date, purpose, and recorder—to avoid this.
What is bias?
This group is known as the "People of the Longhouse" and is made up of six different tribes
Who are the Haudenosaunee?
Besides conflict over land, this was one of the most devastating challenges brought by explorers to Indigenous communities.
What are new diseases?
This 1763 agreement officially ended the Seven Years' War and changed the control of New France.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
What treaty was signed to end the war between Britain and France?
Treaty of Utrecht
The group known as the "runners of the woods"
What are the Coureurs De Bois
What Indigenous Group has ancestors that come from both Indigenous and European descent?
Who are the Metis
These specific resources were frequently exchanged by Indigenous peoples for European goods during the early trade years.
What are furs and fish?
This 1774 act was passed by the British to help govern the former territory of New France.
What is the Québec Act?
This 1763 British proclamation set out rules for North American settlement and Indigenous land rights
What is the Royal Proclamation?
King Charles II claimed power and trading rights in the land around the Hudon's Bay to profit from the valuable fur. This land was known as..