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The Birch Bark Canoe: Navigating a New World
Discusses the importance of the Indigenous invention in the development of Canada.
Additional Material: The Birch Bark Canoe: Navigating a New World: 21st Century Curriculum Connections and Video Resource for Manitoba Teachers (Grades 5-9).
Chapter 4 - Competition for the Fur Trade
For use with chapter from Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada, a Grade 7 Social Studies textbook.
Chapter 4: Competition for Trade
For use with chapter from Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada, a Grade 7 Social Studies textbook.
Chapter 4 - Competition for Trade Notes (Pt. 2) [Answer Key]
Student handout for use with Grade 7 Social Studies textbook chapter in Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada by Daniel Francis; contributing authors Angus Scully and Jill Germain.
Related Material: "Competition for Trade" Workbook.
Chapter 4 “Competition for Trade” Workbook
For use with chapter in the Grade 7 Social Studies textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada by Daniel Francis; contributing authors Angus Scully and Jill Germain.
Related Material: Competition for Trade Notes (Pt. 2) [Answer Key]
Contrasting Worlds
Overview of Métis history from the 1600s to the early 1870s when many Métis migrated from Manitoba to Saskatchewan. Includes questions for students.
2nd edition.
Education Program: The Fur Trade
Web page includes brief information about the fur trade and two games: Fur Trade Timeline Game and The Fur Trade Game.
The Fur Trade
Intended for use in Grade 7 Social Studies classes.
Chapter from Our Canada: Origins, Peoples, Perspectives by David Rees, Darrell Anderson Gerrits, and Gratien Allaire.
[Fur Trade Learning Plan]
Intended for Grade 4 Social Studies.
Fur Trader Game
For use with the article The Business That Created a Country found on p. 6 of the special issue "How Furs Built Canada" in Kayak: Canada's History Magazine for Kids. Suitable for Grades1 to 5.
Grade 5 Social Studies: People and Stories of Canada to 1867: A Foundation for Implementation
Modules: First Peoples, Early European Colonization (1600 to 1763), Fur Trade, and From British Colony to Confederation (1763 to 1867).
Grade 7 Social Studies Study Guide
Meant for use with the textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada by Daniel Francis; contributing authors Angus Scully and Jill Germain.
The Great-West Life School Programme at Festival du Voyageur
Although designed for use with a class trip to the festival by elementary and middle schools students, material stands alone.
How Furs Built Canada
Special digital edition of Canada's History's magazine for children Kayak. Suitable for ages 7-12
Indigenous Ingenuity and the Fur Trade: Lesson Plan
For use with Grades 5-12.
Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada: Teacher's Kit for Giant Floor Map
Topics include climate change, demographics, Indigenous governance, housing, human rights, Indigenous languages, migration, famous people, original place names, residential schools, seasonal cycles, symbols, timeline, trade routes, and treaties, land disputes, agreements and rights.
Although activities were created for the giant floor map, they can be adapted to the printable tile version.
Lesson Plan: Fur Trade Timeline
Designed for Grades 3-8. Information from the article Fur Trade Times in the special issue of Kayak magazine How Furs Built Canada. Students play a class game of "I Have ... Who Has?"
[Operation Water Spirit Thematic Units]: Grade Eight: Foreigners Invade Your Country Simulation
Social Studies 7: Chapter 1: Aboriginal Societies [Notes]
Focuses on the Mi'maq, Haudenosaunee, and the Anishinabe nations. Answer key.
For use with chapter from textbook Voices and Visions: A Story of Canada.
Social Studies Grade 5: Canada: The Peoples and Stories of This Land: A Curriculum and Guide to Implementation
Nine modules: Origins and Connections to the Land; Pre-Contact Cultures; Early European Exploration and Colonization; Nouvelle-France and Cultural Integration; French-English Rivalry; Refugees, Warriors and Reformers; Negotiating Confederation; Furs, Farms and the Métis; and Treaties, War, and the Changing West.
Integrates Dene, Inuvialuit and Inuinnait perspectives on history.
"Territorial Pilot 2011-2012".
Toward Confederation Images Collection
Fifty-three images relating to the fur trade.
The Untold Story of the Hudson's Bay Company
Discusses the company's history from its origins to the present day and its historical relationship with Indigenous peoples.
Related material: Lesson Plan.