Chapter 6: Canada - Lesson 2 (Grade 6)

Canadians call the native or _______ people who lived in North America before Europeans the "First Nations".

• original

• aboriginal

• founding

The first people to arrive in Canada came from Asia during the Ice Age.

• True

• False

Two important eastern woodlands groups of native people who first lived in the eastern region of Canada were the ____ and ____.

(a)  

The people of the eastern woodlands built villages and lived by farming, hunting, and fishing.

• True

• False

Native people that lived in the far north of Canada, built shelters without using trees, and hunted caribou were called _____.

• Iroquois

• Inuit

• Huron

• Navajo

How did Inuit people keep warm in the winter?

The first European people to reach what is now Canada settled in southern Newfoundland were called ___.

• Vikings

• Inuit

• French

• Aboriginal

The next group of Europeans to enter Canada after the Vikings were the _____.

• Spanish

• German

• French

• English

The French made their first serious efforts to settle the region in the 1600's when Samuel de Champlain founded the first settlement called _____.

• Ontario

• Quebec

• Newfoundland

• America

Some of the French settlers migrated to Canada and became fur traders who exchanged European goods with the Huron

• True

• False