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- Stadacona
- Site of present day Quebec City
- John Schultz
- Leader of the Canadian Party in the Red River colony
- potlach
- a feast at which the host gave away many gifts
- Great Famine
- Result of the potato blight in Ireland in the 1840's
- Bishop
- He was in charge of the church
- The Cree
- a member of a North American Indian people of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Montana
- Nonsuch
- was the ketch that sailed into Hudson Bay in 1668-1669, in the first trading voyage for what was to become the Hudson's Bay Company two years later
- geology
- The scientific study of the origin, history, and structure of the earth
- Act of Union
- This act united Upper and Lower Canada into one colony
- Coureurs De Bois
- a French or French-Indian trapper of North America, esp. of Canada
- Lord Selkirk
- A Scottish philanthropist who sponsored immigrant settlements in Canada at the Red River Colony
- CPR
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Industrial Revolution
- Change in technology, brought about by improvements in machinery and by use of steam power
- Thirteen Colonies
- British colonies to the south of Quebec
- wampum
- used among the Iroquoians both as money and as a record of treaties
- Louis Riel
- Metis leader of the Manitoba and North-West rebellions
- travois
- made of two crossed poles pulled behind a horse for carrying loads
- Peter Pond
- was a soldier with a Connecticut regiment, a fur trader, founding member of the North West Company, an explorer and cartographer
- Quebec Act
- Signed in 1774, intended to reorganize the way these British territories were governed
- Batoche
- Site of the battle which saw the defeat of the Metis forces during the North-West Rebellion
- Manitoba Act
- Created the new self-governing province of Manitoba in 1871
- Subarctic
- a huge area of North America which spreads from Alaska in the west to the Maritimes in the East
- Norsemen
- First Europeans to reach North America
- Donnaconna
- Leader of the Iroquois Indians during Cartier's voyage
- Seigneurie
- They were long, narrow rectangles facing the waters of a major river or lake