Early Contact Quiz Preperation

The first Europeans to reach "Canada" were...

• The English

• The French

• Vikings

The next European explorers came to Canada in ...

• The 1500s

• The 1400s

• The 1600s

• The 1300s

These European explorers came across the Atlantic Ocean to...

• Own and control land

• Find a sea route to India and China

• Avoid the long overland journey east

• All the above

A colony is...

• Land that is too cold to live

• A nation of Indigenous peoples

• An area claimed and controlled by another country

• A journey that is organized for a specific purpose

What did early sailors use to help navigate their way across oceans?

• Astronomy

• The Bible

• Intuition

• Schools of Fish

Click the 5 reasons Europeans went exploring...

• 1) Trade route to Asia

  2) Land and Power

  3) Resources and wealth

  4) Religion

  5) Curiosity and Adventure

• 1) Finding other people around the world

  2) They did not want to live in Europe any longer

  3) Resources and wealth

  4) Religion

  5) They wanted to build villages

The first explorers of Eastern Canada were John _____, Jaques_____, and Samuel _________

• John Frobisher

  Jaques Hudson

  and Samuel Brule

• John Cabot

  Jaques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain

Canada was first claimed for England and called

• Prince Edward Island

• New Found Land

• St. Lawrence Region

After England, some lands were claimed for

• Britain

• France

What First Nation or Aboriginal group has stories about their ancestors meeting foreigners?

• The Mi'kmaq and Inuit

• The Huron Wendat