Famous Explorers
Important Dates
Imortant places
Interactions with First Nations
100
This man was the first European to land on the coast of Newfoundland.
Who is Giovanni Caboto?
100
In this year Giovanni Caboto took his second voyage and got lost at seas second voyage and got lost at sea.
What is the year 1498?
100
This was the name of the first place to be found in Canada.
What is Newfoundland?
100
The Europeans traded Cod fish for this with the First Nations
What are Animal Furs?
200
This man is known as "Father of new France".
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
200
This is the year when Samuel de Champlain went to the St. Lawrence for the second and establish a settlement in Quebec.
What is the year 1608?
200
This place had a war that caused a disruption in the trading routes between Europe and Asia.
What is Mongolia?
200
The Europeans traded these kind of goods with the Mi'kmaq people.
What are metal cooking and hunting utensils?
300
This famous explorer was given the power to claim land for France and was led by navigator Giovanni da Verrazano.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
300
An English expedition that was led by an Italian sailor and merchant took place in what year?
What is 1497?
300
When Sir John Franklin went on the Northwest Expedition, this was were he was trying to get to.
What is Asia?
300
This Cuture became extinct in the 1500s when the Europeans came to hunt Cod.
What is The Beothuk?
400
This explorer was sent back to the Arctic to mine for gold, but only found iron pyrite.
Who is Martin Frobisher?
400
In this year King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain agreed to put up money for Christopher Columbus' expidition.
What is the year 1492?
400
This is where Christopher Columbus landed when he was trying to find Asia.
What is the Caribbean?
400
A European man, William Cormack, noticed that a Beothuk woman named Shawnadithit (I don't know how to pronounce that) was dying of this disease.
What is Tuberculosis?
500
This famous explorer left Britain in 1610 and got trapped in ice in 1611.
Who is Henry Hudson?
500
In this year Martin Frobisher left for the Arctic.
What is the year 1576?
500
This is the route that many Explorers took and lost their lives on, to get to Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
500
For these two other reasons, the Beothuk became extinct.
What is loss of food and European diseases?
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