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Atlantic Region
Great Lakes/St Lawrence Region
Canadian Shield
Interior Plains
Cordillera Region
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These provinces make up this region.
Nova Scocia, New Brunswick, PEI, the island of Newfoundland and part of Quebec
100
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
an alliance of six First Nations groups
100
Which First Nations groups live in this region?
Woodland Cree, Anishinabe, Innu
100
What are the natural resources of this region?
Coal, natural gas, oil, farming
100
What is a cordillera?
A chain of mountians.
200
Name 3 natural resources of this region.
Ocean, fish, oil, natural gas, forest and farmland.
200
The land of New France was owned and controlled by wealthy business men called this.
Seigneurs.
200
What brought people to this region?
The expansion of the fur trade.
200
What does NWMP stand for?
North-West Mounted Police
200
What is a Potlatch?
It is a celebration that brings communities together to eat, sing, dance, and tell stories. The potlatch is the centre of life.
300
Name the First Nations groups of this region.
Maliseet, Mi'kmaq, Beothuk.
300
What was outlined by the Quebec act of 1774?
Canadiens would be able to keep their land and seigneural system, freely practice their religion and speak their language.
300
What does Voyageur mean? What did they do?
A French word meaning traveller - travelled by canoe, working for the fur trade companies.
300
What is a calvary?
A group of soldiers or police who use horses.
300
What is the name of one of the first European explorers to this region?
James Cook, Alexander Mackenzie, and Simon Fraser
400
What brought the first Europeans to this region?
Cod fishing.
400
What was the great Migration?
approximatly 8 million immigrants from Britian, Scotland and Ireland came in 1818-1850.
400
How did the fur trade affect the First Nations?
Guns made hunting easier but made them rely on trading posts for bullets. As they attempted to gather more furs they had less time to gather food for their families and became more dependant on the posts for food.
400
Why did the Government of Canada want treaties with the First Nations Peoples of this region?
To build the railway to bring settlers in to farm the land, to secure land for settlement, and to take away the rights of the First Nations people and assimilate them.
400
Why did the CPR hire Chinese workers?
The Cordillera region provided many challenges and there were not enough workers to complete the job.
500
What is Le Grand Derangement?
This means the great upheaval. The British foced Acadians to leave because they would not swear allegiance to Britian.
500
What was the underground railway?
The name for the people who secretly helped slaves escape and reach Upper Canada safely.
500
What does coureur des bois mean?
A French word meaning runners of the woods.
500
Why did the British settlers come to the Interior Plains Region?
Britian was crowded, it was hard to find jobs and they wanted to own their own land.
500
What was the Continuous Passage Act?
To stop people from immigrating from India, Canada passed a law that stated that anyone who wanted to immigrate to Canada could only do so if they came directly by ship, without stopping at any other port. Since no ships sailed directly sailed from India to Canada, this law made sure that no more Indian people could come to Canada.