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Grade 12 Canada: History, Identity,and Culture: Canada, Origins to 1774

A profile of Canadian history and its effects on today's society. Past and present history explores the influences it has on Canada's future.

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Influential Canadians in early Canadian Society

Jean de Brebeuf
from The Canadian Encyclopedia
Jean de Brebeuf
from : Canada Info
Jean de Brebeuf
from: Encyclopedia Britannica Online

Etienne Brule
Etienne Brule
from: Canadian Museum of History
Etienne Brule
from: The Canadian Encyclopedia

Samuel de Champlain
from: www.biography.com
Samuel de Champlain
from; The Canadian Encyclopedia
Samuel de Champlain
from: www.canadahistory.com

Donnacona
from: www.biography.com
Donnacona
from:Canada: A People's History
Donnacona
from: The Canadian Encyclopedia

Marie Guyart
from: The Canadian Encyclopedia
Marie Guyart
From Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Hiawatha
Hiawatha
from: www.biography.com
Hiawatha

Henry Hudson
Source: www.biography.com
Henry Hudson
Source: www.britannica.com
Henry Hudson
From: The History Channel www.history.com
Henry Hudson
Source: www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca

Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
From: Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
Source: www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm
from: Canada: A People's History

James Murray
from: The Canadian Encyclopedia
James Murray
Source: The Dictionary of Canadian Biography
James Murray
from: www.canadahistory.com

Kateri Tekakwitha
Source: Dictionary of Canadian BIography
Kateri Tekakwitha
Kateri Tekakwitha
Source: National Women's History Museum

Pierre de Rigaud Vaudreuil
Source: Dictionary of the Canadian Biography
Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil
Source: The Canadian Encyclopedia
Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil

General James Wolfe
James Wolfe
Source: The Canadian Encyclopedia
James Wolfe British General
Source: www.britannica.com

Influential Political Events prior to 1774

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Canadian Aboriginal History

Canadian Aboriginal People
From The Canadian Encyclopedia
Eastern Woodland Indians and the coming of the Europeans
Origins of Canada's First People
Aboriginal relationships
History of Aboriginal Peoples
From: Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada
Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada
Historic description of Aboriginal peoples in Canada prior to Europeans entering Canada.
Aboriginals in Canada before European contact
First Peoples before European contact
Interactive resources from Canada's First Peoples including maps, images and information on life before the European contacts.

Europeans in Canada prior to 1774
Through the Government of Canada through Immigration, Refugess, and Citizenship Canada.
Aboriginal-European Relations in the 1700s
VLC--First Nations and Europeans in New France and and early Canada
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Developments in Economy in Canada prior to 1774

The beginnings of the Fur Trade
The Hudson's Bay Company and Fur Trade
Fur Trade
from The Canadian Encyclopedia
Fur Traders
The beginning of the Fur Trade
Cree Trappers and the Fur trade

History of Fishing in Canada
History of Fishing
History of First Nations and Fishing
from: The Canadian Encyclopedia

Timber Trade History
from: The Canadian Encyclopedia
Timber Trade in Canada
from Canadian Geographic

Mercantilism
fro: The Canadian Encyclopedia
Mercantilism in New France
Mercantilism in the New World
from: The New World Encyclopedia

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The Seven Years' War
Seven Years' War
from the War Museum of Canada
The Seven Years' War
The Seven Years' War

Battle of the Plains of Abraham
from: The Canadian Encyclopedia
Battle of the Plains of Abraham

Pontiac's War
from: The Canadian Encyclopedia
The Pontiac Rebellion
Pontiac's Rebellion

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Colonial groups and their roles in Canada prior to 1774

Cree Trappers - History
Cree Nation Trappers
Source: Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation
Cree Trappers a History
Source: The Canadian Encyclopedia

The Ursulines
Source: The Canadian Encyclopedia
The Ursulines
The Ursulines