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socials studies 9
fur trade and arrival in canada
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| caurevr de bois | runners o the woods indepentent fur traders new france |
| voyageurs | paddled canoes for the northwest company |
| habitants | the people that farmed the strips of land in new france |
| seigneurs | the people who were granted land and had to build a manor in new france |
| jesuits | the people who went to aboriginal communities and learned the language and customs, so that they could then work on converting the "savages" to christianity |
| warrior | a term used to descibe the citizens who trained as soldiers in their spare time |
| kings daughters | the female orphans who were brought from france to new france in order to start a new life and help increase the population |
| maquinna | chief of the nu-chah-nulth people who took two white slaves from the trading ship called the boston |
| the vikings | the original european discovers of the americas |
| christopher columbus | the spanish explorer who i widly credited with discovering the americas |
| alexander mackenzie | the first european to reach canada's pacific coast(bella coola) overland |
| james cook | the english explorer who proved the northwest passage did not exist, met with the northwest coast people in nootka sound an circumnavigated the globe |
| brule | the coureur de bois who explored the great lake region for champlain. he was believed to have beem killed an eaten by the huron |
| radisson and groseilliers | the two exploring whose exloring of the hudson bay region led to the creation of the hbc |
| george vancouver | the explorer who produced accurate detailed maps of the coast o bc |
| david tomson | the explorer who mapped a large region in south eastern bc. he has a river named for him |
| cobet | the explorer who claimed "newfoundland" for england |
| chanplain | the explorer who established a habitation in quebec and created alliances with a number of aboriginal groups against the iroquois |
| cartier | the explorer who failed to establish a colony in the st. lawence region and instead retured to france with worthless "gold and diamonds" |