English Exploration
He was the first English explorer to arrive in North America?
Who is John Cabot?
He was known as the "Father of New France"?
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
The Haudenosaunee were led by this leader when Jacques Cartier arrived?
Who is Donnacona?
Known as "runners of the woods", this group was vital to the growth of the fur trade.
Who are the Coureurs de bois?
New France instituted this traditionally French system of farming and nobility.
What is the seigneurial system?
This explorer was left to die after his crew had a mutiny in the body of water which would later be named after him.
Who is Henry Hudson?
Jacque Cartier was the first French explorer in the new world and he would go on this many voyages in his lifetime.
What is three?
This First Nations group lives in the Maritimes and are known for their unique sounding and often mispronounced name.
Who are the Mi'kmaq?
This company was responsible for most of the English fur trade in Canada.
Followers of a church who are asked to contribute a percentage of their income are paying this.
What is a tithe?
This English explorer mapped much of the west coast before dying a historically controversial death in Hawaii?
Who is James Cook?
The name Canada was mistranslated by the French to mean all of the land when it really means this in Iroquois?
What is village?
This First Nations group resides in the Great Lakes region and include the Ojibwa, Odawa, Potawatomi, Mississaugas, Nipissing and Algonquin peoples.
Who are the Anishinaabe?
The French fur trading company that would compete with the Hudson's Bay Company for territory and furs.
Who were the Nor'westers?
These two cash crops were vital to the growth of the 13 colonies.
What is the River of Disappointment?
The Haudenosaunee gave Jacques Cartier the remedy to this disease, caused by a lack of vitamin C.
What is scurvy?
This British leader issued a decree to “annoy, distress, take, or destroy Mi’kmaq people wherever they are found”.
Who is Lord Cornwallis?
The Fur Trade opened up after this 1701 agreement that included a symbolic burying of a hatchet.
What is the Great Peace of Montreal?
Jean Baptiste-Colbert, Jean Talon and Governor Frontenac served as Governor in New France as part of this system of government.
What is the sovereign council?
The fishing industry in England was changed after John Cabot discovered this area outside of Newfoundland.
What is the Grand Banks?
They were missionaries sent from France to create positive and peaceful relations with First Nations in New France.
Who were the Jesuits?
Who were the Beothuk?
This treaty, signed in 1713, granted fur trading rights to the English and forced French fur traders to move.
What is the Treaty of Utrecht?
In order to increase the population of New France, Louis XIV sent "Les Filles du Roi" also known in English as this.
Who were the King's Daughters?