What was the Red River Colony?
What was Selkirk’s plan?
Selkirk’s plan was to bring homeless farmers and their families from the Scottish Highlands and have them establish a new farming community in Assiniboia.
What does N W M P stand for?
North-West Mounted Police.
Who First Lived In The Interior Plains?
The first people to live in the Interior Plains were the Dene, Plains Cree, Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai.
What are ambassadors?
Ambassadors are people who are chosen to speak or represent for a group.
A long period with out rain.
What is Pemmican?
Pemmican is dry meat with berry's and fat.
What is a Cavalry?
A Calvary is a group of police or soldiers that use horses.
What animals provided food and clothing?
Caribou and bison.
What is Irrigation?
Irrigation is water supply to dry land using pipes ditches or streams.
What are some natural disasters in the interior plain region? Name at least 4.
Hail, dust storms, droughts, tornadoes, ice storms, floods and blizzards.
When was assiniboia found?
Assiniboia was found in 1812.
Who was first prineminster of Canada?
Sir John A. Macdonald.
What was very important for the Dene?
Caribou.
What is Organic farming?
Organic farming is farming that uses no chemicals on plants or animals.
What are some affects of droughts? (name at least 3)
Farmers lose their crops and then they lose their money, other people that are affected are business owners, some farmers choose to find other ways to farm or try new crops this can be hard to do. Some farmers are forced to sell their farms.
Where is assiniboia?
It is East of Canada, above the USA.
What did the minister of Canada want on page 139?
The minister of Canada wanted a police force to bring law and Canadien authority to the new territories.
On page 132 in Voices of Canada how are the people feeling about the rain?
They are happy and excited because the caribou are going to eat well and get fat.
What are the highlands?
The highlands are a mountainous area in assiniboia.
What is the weather like in the Interior Plains?
The weather is very cold in the winters and very hot in summer.
In 1811, what did the Hudson's bay company do?
They ranted part of it vast territory now called Rupert’s Land.
What did presence of the NWMP mean to the people of Interior Plains?
It meant that the people of the Interior Plains felt safer.
What is on page 132?
The picture is a buffalo jump provincial park.
What are homesteads.
A homestead is the land owned by a settler.
What are the activities the people are doing on page 129?
They are Mountain biking, they are taking a walk in the sunshine and some people are working in oil industry.