French Colonization
Runner of the Woods; fur traders, interpreters and guides for the fur trade in New France.
Coureur de Bois
The indigenous people who once lived in Newfoundland and are now extinct.
Beothuk
The French explorer who succeeded in gathering important information about North America for France but did not set up a permanent colony.
Jacque Cartier
A network of many territories controlled by a single country.
Empire
What information is being shown in this chart?
| Year | New France | Thirteen Colonies | 1660 3,000 90,000
1730 34,118 629,445
1760 64,000 1,593,625
population
Women who got sent to New France to marry and increase the population of the colony.
The reason why British sailors did not want to stay in the fishing colonies off the waters of Newfoundland despite the fact that John Cabot reported an abundance of fish.
Harsh climate
The land that was given to Radisson and Groisseiliers after their discovery of the Hudson Bay
Rupert's Land
A king or a queen that rules a country.
Monarch
Goods and products that result from processing and handling by factories or craftspeople.
Manufactured goods.
The governing system of New France.
The Sovereign Council
The present day country that came from England's Thirteen Colonies.
United States of America
The route that the European explorers were trying to find through the Arctic waters for a shortcut to Asia.
Northwest Passage
Supreme governing authority.
Sovereignty
Resources shipped by colonies to their home countries.
Fish, furs, lumber and metal ores.
The system of farming and land ownership that allowed France to attract more colonists.
Seigneurial system
When the Hudson Bay Company first started, it had a monopoly on the fur trade in Rupert's Land. What does that mean?
Only the Hudson's Bay Company was allowed to trade in that area.
Two well-known British explorers who first travelled up and down the Pacific (West) Coast of North America.
James Cook and George Vancouver
"A system where countries extend control over other countries or territories, often using economic or military means; the framework that Canada became a country."
Imperialism
“The place where you stand, where you build houses, where you build a fort, where you wish to [claim for] yourself, this land of which you now wish to make yourselves absolute master, this same land belongs to me. I have grown up on it like the grass, and it is the very place of my birth and my residence….” These angry words were probably spoken by a:
The only religion allowed in New France
Catholicism
The main reason why the Thirteen Colonies were a more desirable place for colonists in terms of "trade."
The Thirteen Colonies were allowed to trade with the 'home country' and with each other.
The two British explorers who first travelled deep into the western parts (the interior) of what we now call Canada.
Henry Kelsey & Anthony Henday
An economic system that allowed an imperial country to become rich in gold and silver by selling the manufactured goods made from the resources acquired through their colonies.
Mercantilism
The fundamental difference in perspectives about the land between European explorers and the First Nations they came in contact with.
The European explorers believed that they owned the land they explored and the First Nations believed that the land should be shared by all.