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Exploration 101
British Explorers
French Explorers
First Nations
Wild Card
100
The first non-First Nations people in North America.
Who are the Vikings (Norse)?
100
Giovanni Caboto came into contact with this First Nations group?
Who are the Mi'kmaq?
100
Sent by France in 1534 to find a passage to Asia through North America and “to discover certain islands and lands where it is said that a great quantity of gold, and other precious things, are to be found."
Who is Jacques Cartier?
100
A respected leader of the Dene Suliné, travelled with British explorer Samuel Hearne.
Who is Matonabbee?
100
A place where people live permanently, such as a village.
What is a settlement?
200
A policy (decision) on the part of a ruler or government of one territory to dominate other territories.
What is imperialism?
200
The first European to reach Canada’s west coast by travelling across land.
Who is Alexander Mackenzie?
200
Became an explorer at the age of 43. Traveled west of the Great Lakes, seeking a route to Asia and building forts along the way.
Who is Pierre Gaultier de La Verendrye?
200
This disease, brought by Europeans to North America, killed many First Nations people.
What is tuberculosis?
200
A region claimed and governed by a country from another part of the world.
What is a colony?
300
Astrolabe, compass, and better ships are examples of...
technology that enabled exploration?
300
He explored the Arctic and returned to Europe with iron pyrite, claiming it was gold.
Who is Martin Frobisher?
300
He is known as the father of New France.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
300
This First Nations group did not establish a friendly trading relationship with Europeans.
Who are the Beothuk?
300
Canada’s name comes from this Stadacona word that means village or settlement.
What is kanata?
400
The name of the first European to reach North America and the place he found.
Who is Christopher Columbus and the Caribbean?
400
Trapped in Arctic ice, his crew spent the winter battling scurvy and starvation. He wanted to explore further, but his crew rebelled. They abandoned him, his son and seven others in a small boat.
Who is Henry Hudson?
400
He was a French explorer who went down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. Famous for claiming the huge area between the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico.
Who is Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle?
400
I was the last surviving Beothuk person. Who am I?
Who is Shawnadithit?
400
The reason why Europeans kidnapped First Nations to take back to Europe.
To tell the king about the wonders and/or riches they had found in hopes of getting more money for future expeditions.
500
The main reason(s) Europeans set out to explore.
What is finding a faster and safe trade route to Asia to obtain silks and spices?
500
In 1497, this person landed in Newfoundland and claimed it for Britain. He reported seas so full of cod you could scoop fish up by the basketful.
Who is Giovanni Caboto?
500
He established the first permanent European settlement in Canada, at Québec in 1608.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
500
Obtained metal knives, axes, pots, kettles and needles. They valued these European goods because the goods were durable and useful. Met their needs with fewer resources and less trouble.
How did the First Nations people benefit from their trade with the Europeans?
500
A route to Asia through North America’s arctic waters.
What is the northwest Passage?