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Exploring and Colonizing Lands
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Introduction

• When the first explorers came to Canada, they
  were looking for trade passages
• They wanted to retrieve silks, spices, and gold
  from Asia
• Instead they found a harsh and heavily forested
  land
• It did not take them long to discover that this
  area had many valuable resources, such as
  unclaimed land, fish, natural resources, and most
  importantly FUR! (beaver, deer, and rabbit)?

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Aboriginals

• Aboriginal peoples had knowledge of the
  waterways, wilderness travel routes, and trapping
  techniques
• In exchange for knowledge and furs, the Europeans
  offered Aboriginal peoples cloth, metal knives,
  pots, kettles, axes, and guns

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• There was money to be made in the New World by
  sending these plentiful Canadian furs back to
  Europe to be sold
• The furs were used to make beautiful hats, which
  were popular among fashionable Europeans
• Created a demand which lead to the fur trade

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What Next?

• For years the Europeans had considered North
  America an obstacle that stood between them and
  Asia
• They explored North American and claimed lands
  new to them
• Eventually Europeans began to see North America
  as an important area for trading and colonization

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Colonization

• One country brining another region under its
  direct control by creating permanent settlements
• Claiming new land as their own
• Europeans explored and claimed lands new to them
  before they started colonies in North America

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Colonize

• Colonize to create settlements in new lands in
  order to control the land and trade in the
  regions
• The extension of a nation's sovereignty (power to
  rule) over territory beyond its borders by the
  establishment of permanent settlements

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Why?

• Many European Countries established colonies in
  the Americas
• They did this for a variety of reasons
• Colonies were the sources of raw materials and a
  market for finished goods
• They competed with other countries for power
• Land was plentiful and inexpensive
• Needed to control newly claimed lands

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Why? cont

• Attempted to convert Aboriginals to Christianity
• Settlers moved to the colonies so they could
  practice any religion they wanted
• Personal reasons, perhaps to get away from
  family, neighbours, enemies, he law, or for
  adventure

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The French Colonies

• Throughout the 1600s the French Traders
  established settlements along the St. Lawrence
  River in the area they called New France

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The English Colonies

• The English traders formed their own colonies in
  the South along the Atlantic coast which they
  called New England
• They were also active in the Northern region of
  Hudson Bay

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_____S Colony

• Create your own colony based from any of the
  Exploring countries and place it somewhere in
  Canada
• Explain why you choose there and how its
  placement will help the people of your colony
• Why would people want to leave from the Mother
  Country to live in your colony?