EARLY SETTLERS

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EARLY SETTLERS

• Exploring our Past
• Where did we come from?

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Looking back in time
True/False?

• People have always lived in the place we call
  Canada True False
• Different groups of people moved here at
  different times True False
• Aboriginals or first nations have lived here
  for hundreds of years True False
• Later, other people came called settlers or
  pioneers True False

Use your mouse to click on the answer you think
is correct.
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Looking back in time.

• The Aboriginal people and settlers helped to make
  the country that we live in today

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History is about how people lived in the past.
UPPER CANADA was the name used for part of what
we now call Ontario
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When did early settlers arrive here?

• 500 years ago
• 300 years ago
• 100 years ago
• Use your mouse to choose your answer.

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A TIME LINEThink about Time
About 10 000 Years ago
About 2000 years ago
About 5000 years ago
About 500 years ago
About 200 years ago





As the weather changed peoples lives started to
change
People from Europe were exploring and started to
live in Canada
Many people began to move to Upper Canada from
the US and Europe
The first people were moving across an
ice-covered land.
Aborigin-al people began to grow corn and crops
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10 000 years ago

• These people were the long-ago relatives of
  Aboriginal people today. They worked together to
  hunt big animals like caribou and the woolly
  mammoths.

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5000 years ago

• Over thousands of years, the climate became
  warmer and summer lasted longer. Different
  plants and animals began to live in Upper Canada.
  The people began to hunt animals like deer, bear
  and beaver.

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2000 years ago

• People who began to grow corn and crops stayed in
  one place for longer periods of time. Corn needs
  a long, warm summer and good soil.

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500 years ago

• Explorers did not stay in Upper Canada but they
  learned many things from the Aboriginal people.
  They also changed the Aboriginal peoples way of
  life.

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200 years ago

• People from Europe and the United States began to
  move to Upper Canada. These settlers came for
  many reasons. They built homes and began
  villages.

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The Wendat

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The Wendat People

• The Wendat were one of the groups of people
  living in Upper Canada when people from Europe
  arrived. The lived in the southern part of Upper
  Canada. Another name for the Wendat people is
• Iroquois
• Huron
• Cree

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Aboriginal Languages

• Many groups of Aboriginal people lived in Upper
  Canada long before other people came. Their ways
  of life and languages were also different.
• The groups that lived in the south, spoke
  Iroquoian languages. Other groups spoke
  Algonquian languages (like the Anishinabe or
  Ojibwa).

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LEGACY

• Many Aboriginal words are used in English today.
  For example, the name Canada comes from an
  Iroquoian word kanata. It means
• Village
• Country
• Home
• The name Ontario is Iroquoian for
• Plentiful trees
• Beautiful waters
• Rolling hills

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Wendats Villages

-wooden frame, covered with sheets of cedar or
elm bark -several families lived in each
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Wendats Food

Using your mouse, point to the food you think
would be most popular.
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Wendats Tools

Cooking pots, pipes were made from clay they
Wendat dug from the ground.
Axes, knives and arrow points were made from
stone.
Fish spears and arrow points were made from deer
antlers.
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The Anishinabe
True or False?

• The Anishinabe spoke an Algonquian language.
  True False
• They lived in the southern part of Upper Canada
  True False
• They moved often to follow the animals they were
  hunting True False
• Families would come together to work and
  celebrate True False

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Anishinable Villages Homes

The wigwam is shaped like a dome. Others like
cones. Men and women worked together to build
them. The frame was built from poles cut from
young trees. The frame was covered with bark or
animals skins. Spruce tree branches covered the
floor and animal skins to keep them warm. The
fire was built in the middle of the floor to give
heat and to cook food.
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Anishinabe Food

Using your mouse, point to the food that you
think would be the hardest to find.
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Tools

How do you think each of these tools are used?
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RESEARCH..

• In Groups of 4, you are going to research about
  the ways of the Anishinabe or Wendat people
• Be prepared to present your findings to the rest
  of the class at the end of this period.