Pre-Contact
Early Explorers
Life in New France
British North America
Impressing Friends at Dinner Parties
100

The people of the plains lived almost exclusively by hunting this animal:

Buffalo

100

I kidnapped Chief Donaconna on my second voyage to North America.

Jacques Cartier

100

the settlers of the New France colony became known as:

Habitants

100

This battle in 1759 firmly put Quebec in the hands of the English.

The Plains of Abraham

100

I get credit for putting the name "Canada" on the first maps.

Jacques Cartier

200

These structures of piled stone are used as waypoint in the arctic by Canada's Inuit people.

Inuksuk

200

I am credited as the first explorer to Canada, I arrived in 1497 found some cod fish and declared this island to be the property of the British Empire.

Newfoundland

200

These woman were rounded up off the streets of France and sent to the New France colony to reproduce, in an effort to increase the colony's population.

Filles du Roi

200

This French officer was defeat at Quebec by British General James Wolfe.

Montcalm

200

Access to this valuable agricultural land south of the Great Lakes, was one of the main causes of the Seven Years War.

Ohio Valley

300

Archaeologists believe that overland migration to the Americas was aided by a large gap in the North American glacier which would have allowed passage all the way to what is now the central USA.  This passage is referred to as:

Ice-Free Corridor

300

Champlain secured his alliance with the Huron by helping them defeat the Iroquois at the battle of

Ticonderoga

300

This system of land distribution, carried over from France became the method of land ownership used along the St. Lawrence river in the New France colony.

Seigneurial system

300

This Indigenous leader was fundamental to a Canadian / British victory during the War of 1812.

Tecumseh

300

This treaty eneded the War of 1812.

Treaty of Ghent

400

These dwellings, used by people living in Canada's Plateau region are considered to oldest dwellings in North America.

Pit Houses

400

In the fall of _______ Champlain arrived in Quebec with 27 men with the goal of building a settlement and surviving the winter until spring.

1608

400

These catholic missionaries who went to live in Huron communities in an effort to spread Christianiy, are often credited with the widespread smallpox epidemic that decimated the Huron.

Jesuits

400

This colony's strong shipping and trade industries left them very weary about a potential union with Canada in the 1860s.

Nova Scotia

400

To stop Pontiac's Rebellion, King George III passed this law, which prevented settlement west of the Appalachians and recognized Indigenous title to land not already settled by Europeans.

The Royal Proclamation

500

The people of the Pacific, used this style of canoe in the large open water in the Ocean to hunt seals, whales, and large fish.

Dugout Canoe

500

Radisson and des Grosielliers received information about the location of a large salt-water bay where they could trade for the continents thickest beaver fur, from Cree elders on the North shore of this Great Lake.

Lake Superior

500

As Coureur de Bois drifted further away from Quebec and began trading in more and more ruthless ways, the leaders in New France replaced them with a regulated, licensed traders known as:

Voyageurs

500

These three leaders of the Province of Canada are often seen as the leding figures of Confederation.

John A. MacDonald

George Brown

George-Etienne Cartier

500

I was the leader of the Lower-Canada Rebellion.

Louis-Joseph Papineau

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