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Exploration 101
British Explorers
French Explorers
First Nations
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100

This is the Indigenous group that lived in Newfoundland prior to European contact. 

Beothuk People

100

Jacques Cartier came into contact with this First Nations group?

Who are the Mi'kmaq?

100

This explorer raised a cross on the Gaspe Peninsula with the First Nations people from Stadacona watching them.

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

This explorer caused tension between the French and a tribe of Indigenous people after he took 10 Indigenous people to France with him and they died.

Jacques Cartier

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

These people (young french men) traded with the Indigenous people and sometimes were interpreters for them in the fur trade. 

Coureurs de bois


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

This person is a coureur des bois. He has lived with the First Nations since his adolescence. He was one of the two who helped start up the Hudson Bay Company.

Raddison and Grossierers
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 4 reasons Europe wanted to expand its empire. Explain each one. 

1. Economy 

2. Religion

3. Competition

4. Curiousty

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?